My life on the Bipolar Train They always say that hindsight is 20/20 and I have to admit that “they” are right. I have been asked by several people when I noticed I had a mental illness and frankly, for the longest time I didn’t know. It is really hard to be that introspective sometimes, [...]
Anxiety: A Plague, Years Of Wonder The cloud of anxiety makes other voices Slytherin; This is not English, I would think, 7, 8,9 years old, my blonde boy cap, freckles, fat cheeks, I can't understand you. I watched faces. Eyes. Hands. The sharp outlines of buildings and overpasses and freeway signs and fences and cars and sidewalks that slanted into [...]
My story started in the Bronx. Northeast not the South of urban fairy tale. My mother had me her senior year in high school. Instead of going away to college as she dreamed, she went to local college(oddly next door to her high school). I have very few memories of those years obviously as it [...]
"I know what's wrong with you", The doctor said, as she folded her hands behind her head. "You're Bipolar. You have Bipolar Disorder, Type II. That's why the antidepressants you've been taking work great for awhile, then just STOP working. Your body chemistry must have a mood stabilizer to temper the antidepressant, or you'll have [...]
In the UK, mental health support is exceptional for young people. The services available are resourceful. However, I beg to differ with the services for people over the age of 18 seeking mental health support. For instance, booking an appointment with your Doctor can take 8 weeks. I first fell into the mental health system [...]
My name is Monica. I’m a 27 year old African American Female and Ihave Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety and ADHD. For about 13+ year I had“classic symptoms of ADHD.” So that’s what it was just good ‘ole ADHD.That is what I told everyone in school as I grew up.Being diagnosed two years ago was like a [...]
August 11th 1994. I was 15 and for quite some time my mind had beenspinning out of control. The previous year I had been sexuallyassaulted. And I had been harboring the secret. It had catapulted meinto a life of confusion. I was in the midst of a serious eatingdisorder. I could not concentrate at school. [...]
According to NAMI, 60 millions adults (1 in 4) in the US suffer from mental illness, such as depression and panic disorders. Out of these folks, 14 million people (4 in 100) have a serious mental illness, ranging form bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, and and severe depression. An estimated 15 million children (1 in 5) suffer from [...]
On January 20 of 2010 my husband had me committed to the psychiatric ward in London, Ontario. He persuaded our daughter to call me and to ask me to meet her at a restaurant so that we could talk. When I arrived a police officer took me under a warrant. I was taken to the [...]
I suffer from depression. I’ve struggled with my mental health since my teens, though at that time I didn’t really know that’s what it was for the longest time. It has taken many subtle forms which I didn’t realize were part and parcel of it, or really abnormal in any way. A lack of focus, [...]