When I found my father’s journals, I knew I had to stop running away from mental illness.
There is one big taboo no wants to talk about. It’s a trend most easily seen in men, but increasingly is impacting women as well.
I grew up with a depressed father and became a depressed son. My father took an overdose of sleeping pills when I was five years old, following years feeling anxious and depressed because he couldn’t make a living as a writer and actor. He didn’t die, but I lost his presence growing up. I grew
Have you noticed that we seem to continually go through huge ups and downs in our lives? Our economy goes on a manic run, then crashes. We get all hyped up for another war then become depressed when it never seems to lead to the peaceful result we had hoped to achieve. It reminds me
For most of my life I haven’t understood my anger or why it was so often directed at the women in my life. I’ve been married three times. My first marriage lasted 10 years and ended in an acrimonious divorce. My second marriage began with extreme attraction and passion and luckily ended before one of
A new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is due out next year and there is renewed discussion about what constitutes a “mental illness.” One of the world’s leading psychiatrists is questioning the very concept of mental illness. “In non-psychiatric circles mental illness all too often is considered to be whatever psychiatrists say it
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