Mental Health Monday – Case #3 – Bipolar Disorder

This is the third of a four-part series on mental health disorders and how real people handle them. These people are your neighbors, brothers, sisters, children, parents, even your grandparents. You know them. They’re around you every day. Well, not specifically these interviewees, no, but you get the idea. They are perfectly normal people facing

Mental Health Monday – Case #2 – Treatment Resistant Depression

This is the second of a four-part series on mental health disorders and how real people handle them. These people are your neighbors, brothers, sisters, children, parents, even your grandparents. You know them. They’re around you every day. Well, not specifically these interviewees, no, but you get the idea. They are perfectly normal people facing

Mental Health Monday – Medications Bazaar I: Meet Your Psych Medications

This post is part of the Psych Writer series on how psychopharmaceuticals work. They’re also called psychoactive or psychotropic. Those all mean the same thing: they’re medications that work to change your brain with what it’s missing so that you can get back your functioning. This post is for educational purposes only, and doesn’t cover

Mental Health Monday: The Analogy

Let’s talk about what it means to have a mental illness. Mental Illness has stigma written all over it. Let’s work on changing that. On Quora, I liken having any kind of mental illness to having a chronic medical condition such as diabetes. Diabetes is probably one of the better analogies. Here’s one of my

Mental Health Monday: Medicine & Mental Illness

Some of my beloved humans on Facebook are starting on a medication journey to help them with different mental health issues. The following series is dedicated to them. The Analogy: Mental Illness has stigma written all over it. Let’s work on changing that. Medications Bazaar: An overview of how medications for psychological issues are prescribed

The Psych Writer on Major Depressive Disorder, Part Three – MDD with Psychotic Features

This is the final installment of The Psych Writer series on Major Depressive Disorder. This week, we turn our focus on MDD with Psychotic Features. Of course, when writing any disorder, focus on showing rather than telling, and remember, your character is human. Give them more dimensions than their disorder. What’s tricky about writing MDD

The Psych Writer: Introducing Depression

This is part of a series of The Psych Writer. I tend to write about pretty heavy topics because they’re mainly about mental illness, and though there are many things we can laugh and joke about to alleviate pain, these topics can be painful for some. So I ask you to stay with me and

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