Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I ca...
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pai...
The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
Basic misunderstandings about DID encountered in the therapeutic community include the following:° The expectation that all clients with DID will present in a Sybil-like manner, with obvious switching...
To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength. It is not a sign of weakness at all.
It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has l...
Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are mentally ill, I want you to instead imagine you are talking to every single person who actually is men...
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.
Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since violation of standards, rules, and goals are insufficient in its elicitation unless responsibility c...
I'll say it again - mental illness is a physical illness. You wouldn't consider going up to someone suffering from Alzheimers to yell, "Come on, get with it, you remember where you left your keys?" Le...
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
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