When the Brain is to Blame
Psyblog has a great article discussing 18 ways that brain imbalances can draw our attention in a negative manner. OCD is covered where we all have heard of people who never get that “resolved” feeling of having their hands completely washed and they wash the skin off them.
Mad Pride :: Is Society Ready?
While the stigmas are far too great still in a world that is obsessed with more important things like Angelina Jolie’s lipstick, it is growing closer to an era when the mentally ill geniuses of our world can be brave enough to out themselves and help erase the stigma.
Defending Psychotherapy
Depressed people are ridiculed by friends and family often because they can’t just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.” This tends to even be a sort of professional view nowadays of psychiatry and psychotherapy in general.
10 Examples of Barbaric Psychiatry
Mental health has not been an exact science for long. Some argue it still isn’t and that psychiatry is barbaric. Here is a simple list of ten types of psychiatry that qualify to me as barbaric, past and present:
Lithium and Silent Professionals
When we go to the doctor or hire a lawyer or take a college course, we expect the people we encounter to be professionals. As such, we assume they don’t have any mental illnesses … that is, many people assume that. The truth is that many people in the professional world are doing their jobs [...]
Symptoms of a Bipolar Manic Episode
I was discussing this series with my wife and she suggested I do a post on what spouses/loved ones should look for as symptoms of bipolar disorder. After all, this is a mental illness so the person suffering it usually will not notice the symptoms on their own. Here are some symptoms of a bipolar [...]
Beautiful Dragon Called Bipolar
I once read that the Chinese dragon we see in parades and such is an emblem of an enemy to defeat. By making ones enemy beautiful, it is thought that one can better defeat him. Depression is well known to have risen in diagnosis in past decades. Other mental illnesses remain in the shadows. For [...]
Respect Other People’s Life as Art
“We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.”
-Spider Robinson
Some of us are traveling in limousines, others are at the freeway on-ramp with cardboard signs. Regardless of the means, we are going from a point a to a point b every day of our lives. It is [...]
