Doctors and other helping professionals treat society, not you. If you are high in society you generally get medication to treat anxiety and pain (this Atlantic Monthly writer doesn't have any trouble getting anxiety medication). If you are not, you don't. The most...
As you may know negative symptoms are parts of yourself the mental illness erases. The way I illustrate this is a Slurpee at Seven Eleven. You get to the bottom of it and you have sucked most of the juice out of it. Now all that remains is flavorless ice. That's...
Concerning the article: A Soldier's War on Pain There's only one way to change the dynamic so that pain treatment happens fairly. It's to have a viable, available way to end one's life. Right to die advocates have been pushing for this for years. When this is in...
Getting to know someone when you have a mental illness is like the game Fruit Ninja. In the game you have to slice the fruit while making sure not to slice the bombs that fly up among the fruit. In this analogy the fruit are the parts of you that you can reveal to...
some people are murdered by labels but they still call it suicide I try my hardest to hide the fact that I am bipolar. One reason is once people stick that label on you they project their prejudice of what they think a bipolar person is on you. You are written off.
Words and generalizations are a match made in heaven. You ask people a question like "does status really matter" and you will get the standard therapeutic B.S. The point is, almost like the doctor knee toy hammering test, people have an autonomous dissembling...
They have a term for sounds that don't arise from real-life events. They call it schizophonia. For example someone talking in the next room wouldn't be schizophonia but talking coming from the TV would be. I feel the same thing happens with us where our emotions...
negative symptoms are radioactive decay of a part of yourself into nothing One thing people gloss over in the whole mental illness thing (because it doesn't have negative social effects for anyone but the sufferer) are negative symptoms. These are parts of yourself...
For awhile in late 2012 I thought I had already killed myself, I was already dead, everything I was experiencing was just a hallucination in some kind of bizarre afterlife. Part of the reason I believed this is people were acting just the way I would predict them to...