The Bipolar Addict: Drinks, Drugs, Delirium, & Why Sober Is the New Cool by Conor Bezane shares the author's experiences, as well as the experiences of others, living with bipolar disorder and co-occurring addictions. I went into his book with high expectations, because concurrent disorders need to be included more often into the conversation about … Continue reading Book review: The Bipolar Addict
The emerging blogger series is aimed at community building through giving mental health bloggers who are early in their blogging evolution the opportunity to have their work seen by a wider audience. It's also a way to introduce you as a reader to some newer members of our community. This post is by Saro of … Continue reading Emerging Blogger Series: Saro
While there is debate over the roles of biological susceptibility and psychosocial factors in triggering the onset of mental illness, it's also worth giving some thought to how the illness experience is shaped by social factors vs. biologically-based symptoms. Once we are ill, we experience symptoms that are influenced by neurophysiological processes, regardless of whether … Continue reading Can the social and biological aspects of mental illness be separated?
Like so many other things in this world, race shouldn't be an issue when it comes to mental health, but it is. I'm not talking about biological effects associated with race like genetic susceptibilities to certain illnesses, but rather the impact of socially imposed ideas about race, and the lack of equality that results. To … Continue reading Where race and mental health collide
The emerging blogger series is aimed at community building through giving mental health bloggers who are early in their blogging evolution the opportunity to have their work seen by a wider audience. It's also a way to introduce you as a reader to some newer members of our community. This post is by Juan of … Continue reading Emerging Blogger Series: Juan
Here's what happened in my life over the past week: I'm no longer doing blog award posts, but I wanted to say a huge thank you to Crystal of Maybe Crazy Help for nominating me for the Blogger Recognition Award and Mathew of Blog of the Wolf Boy for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up
Beckie over at Beckie's Mental Mess is continuing with her weekly "working on us" mental health prompt series. If you're interested in participating, check out her post for the details. This week's questions: Here are a few coping statements, do you agree or disagree? Even if your answer is yes or no, please explain: This … Continue reading Working On Us (Mental Health Prompt)
The emerging blogger series is aimed at community building through giving mental health bloggers who are early in their blogging evolution the opportunity to have their work seen by a wider audience. It's also a way to introduce you as a reader to some newer members of our community. This post is by Sarah from … Continue reading Emerging Blogger: Sarah
Here's what happened in my life over the past week: My parents are in town cat-sitting for my brother. I had dinner with them one night this week, and it was uneventful, but I just don't feel comfortable around them. It wasn't anything they were doing, but depression has always made it hard for me … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up
As a nurse in my province (British Columbia, Canada), if I am hospitalized for mental illness then the provincial Health Professions Act requires the hospital to report me to the nursing regulatory college, and the college must treat this as a complaint about my fitness to practice. This ends up with being offering the non-choice … Continue reading Doing My Bit in the Fight Against Stigma
It's week 2 of Beckie's "Working On Us" mental health prompt series over at Beckie's Mental Mess. If you're interested in participating, hop on over to her page for the complete info. 🌻 Prompt #1 What do you find to be the most challenging for you when it comes to your mental illness? (You can give … Continue reading Working on us mental health prompts
The emerging blogger series is aimed at community building through giving mental health bloggers who are early in their blogging evolution the opportunity to have their work seen by a wider audience. It's also a way to introduce you as a reader to some newer members of our community. This post is by Brittany of … Continue reading Emerging Blogger Series: Brittany
First off, we'll establish a couple of things: If you're having thoughts of suicide and need to reach out, there's a list of crisis resources here. No need to worry about me; I'm not currently suicidal. I recently saw a post by Elizabeth of Life. Love. Bipolar. on the topic of suicide attempts and the … Continue reading No Regrets? Surviving Attempted Suicide
Here's what happened in my life over the past week: Thank you to The Mindberg for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger award! I added two new members to my family. I adopted Peanut and Butternut from an SPCA shelter. Apparently they were fighting at the shelter and the shelter staff person was quite insistent … Continue reading Weekend wrap-up
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychological terms. This week's term: flashbacks Flashbacks involve the intense, vivid re-experiencing of memories as though they're occurring in the present tense. This most often happens with trauma-related memories. The flashbacks are usually involuntary and intrusive, and don't result from a conscious attempt … Continue reading What is… a flashback?
