Psychopathic Children?
The New York Times recently came out with an article about 9-year-old boy, Michael, that experts have given the differential diagnosis of a...
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DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
Dissociative identity disorder is one of four mental disorders that are recognized as part of the dissociative disorders classification of...
Hoarding: The Beast From Within
I can trace the trigger for my hoarding back to age 14, shortly after returning home from Christmas vacation. I had my loot—as well as a number of...
Migraines, Moods, and Mental Illness
When I was sixteen, I suddenly started vomiting uncontrollably, couldn’t bear the light, and my head was pounding on the left side. One of my...
Self Magazine’s Better-Body Issue Hypocrisy
Self magazine published an article, “The surprising key to feeling body love,” that discussed the implications of friends and family on...
MARIJUANA’S IMPACT ON DEPRESSION
Before I went into treatment, I smoked a lot of weed. Not just once or twice a day, but incessantly. Towards the end, it stopped being...
A Psychotic Break
I was coming home from my friend's lake cabin and I knew something wasn't right. We had decided to trip on mushrooms while his parents were...
Anti-depressant Augmentation
By eighteen I had been on at least a half a dozen anti-depressants with little to no relief. Around the age of seventeen I had changed...
A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Since antiquity, people have observed the link between creative individuals and mental illness. Plato referred to madness as “poetic”, Aristotle...
The Sounds of Mental Illness
Brian Wilson, the composer of such songs as "California Girls," "Help Me, Rhonda," "Wouldn't it Be Nice," “God Only Knows,” and “Good Vibrations”,...