As a person with depression, being open and honest with treatment providers is likely to go straight out the window if it appears to conflict with whatever goal feels most pressing to me at the time.
Tag: psychiatric hospitalization
Emerging Blogger Series: Coconut Heels
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 Coconut Heels.… Continue reading Emerging Blogger Series: Coconut Heels
Book Review: Alert and Oriented x3
Alert and Oriented x3 by Leif Gregersen II, a book about living with a psychotic illness, is offered as a free download from the author's blog, Mental Health Coping Skills Blog by Leif Gregersen. The author has schizoaffective disorder, and this book focuses on his most recent hospitalization, which he describes as being unimaginably painful. … Continue reading Book Review: Alert and Oriented x3
Early Insane Asylums – Bedlam and Beyond
This post is a follow-up of sorts to a guest post I did recently on Renard's World. While that post focused on the dark side of psychiatry in the 1900s, in this post we'll look even further back in history at some of the frightening goings-on in early asylums to "treat" people with psychiatric illnesses.… Continue reading Early Insane Asylums – Bedlam and Beyond
Emerging Blogger Series: Breathing with a Noose
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 Noose Girl of… Continue reading Emerging Blogger Series: Breathing with a Noose
Cell Phones on Psych Wards – Yea or Nay?
I saw a post about this issue on Twitter recently, and it stirred up a pretty strong reaction for me. A man was writing about how he'd been advocating for his child to be able to have their cell phone on the psych ward, but this was flatly denied due to ward policy. As a… Continue reading Cell Phones on Psych Wards – Yea or Nay?