It has been three years since I started talking and writing openly about my Depression and life with a Bipolar 1 family member. Being transparent about my struggle has changed the rules of engagement in my conflict with mental illness. I discovered that by talking only to therapists and an inner circle for so long, …
I have some very important personal information and updates to share that should take no more than 15 minutes to read through. For the past two and a half years I have suffered through, and then ultimately started improving from a debilitating health crisis. Unfortunately, because of perceptions in our society, as I go on …
In our current system, someone having a psychotic episode has a legal right to be psychotic. In other words, they can have lost touch with reality and yet be treated as if they haven’t. Is this a case of civil rights taken too far? First, lets define psychosis. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) …