Wales High High School: First Diagnosis
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
I suggest adults cry more often
Careful about managing my schizophrenia symptoms
With thoughts moving at breakneck speed, at 16, I did not see an end to the downward spiral. I was on a band trip with my high school in the nation’s capital. In 1998, I was without sleep for at least 14 straight days. The antics of my […]
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
Clinicians must respect our rights
I was led to believe I would be forever “sick” no matter how successful my recovery or how creative my writing production.
We need to discuss Independence
However, my efforts were not always enough, and on two occasions, I was given rental violations due to my disorganized apartment.
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
Around the same time I registered for class I walked into a shrink’s office
Those of us with mental illness know full well that there are many challenges required of us. Acquiring and maintaining stable housing is one of the biggest challenges of them all. With a complicated condition, the healing journey can be difficult and even more dangerous without stable housing. […]
Like most thoughts surrounding fear, paranoia, and anxious thinking, they all snowball
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
I would later find out that cases like Minerva exist everywhere, and she is no more unique than her biography is to other people with a mental health disorder who share their story.
My overreactions were to behaviors I considered as threatening
I love this work
Ultimately, the symptoms are overwhelming and become so profound that life becomes too distant and unrecognizable to live without incident.
I find it problematic to count all the regrets I have had throughout my life.
Resolution of inner conflicts has a direct impact on how my life has unfolded
Being a leader means knowing the immediate mental status of their patients
hen the worker finds him or herself front and center in the life of the client. Becoming the object of their desire and madness, emotions and even feelings of safety become subsumed into the client’s new playground.
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
Here we have the emotionally disturbed person in all his narcissistic glory scheming for attention.
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
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