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

The Editor’s Corner – The Rough Draft

As you know, last week we just finished up a section on grief in The Psych Writer Series. So this week I wanted to take a break and head to The Editor’s Corner. After all, we’re writers, not psychologists. (For those of you enjoying TPW, we’ll get back to it soon!) I have a little

The Psych Writer: Grief – Phase Seven: Acceptance

This is the final installment of the grief section in The Psych Writer series. Last week, we took a look at The Depression Phase. But now we can take a nice, deep breath and look at how far we’ve come. All the way to acceptance. These phases are organized for the benefit of the clinician.

The Psych Writer: Grief – Phase Two: Denial

This is an ongoing series called The Psych Writer. Last week, we explored the first phase or stage of grief: shock and disbelief. This week, we’ll take a closer look at phase two: denial. This stage used to be lumped into the first stage of shock and disbelief, which makes sense, but over time, therapists

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