Month: November 2015

A Beautiful Mind: Love and Mental Illness – The Change Blog

Most importantly, I must love myself. Love my mental illness, love my compassion and creativity. Love my strength. Each bad day is just that. A bad day; but I know I will survive. I always do.

Kong Hee: My parents are old, my siblings are handicapped, my son …

Kong Hee said he is the sole breadwinner of his family and that his parents are old, his siblings are deaf and mute, and that his 10 year old son quit school because of a mental illness. Facing a maximum sentence of life …

The Effects of Yo-Yo Weight Gain and Bipolar Disorder | Bipolar Laid …

People with bipolar disorder are even more likely to be overweight, have cardiovascular disease and have type II diabetes than the rest of the population. We're also more susceptible to having our weight yo-yo up and down, …

Generalized Anxiety Disorder – Now@NEJM Now@NEJM

Persistent anxiety and uncontrollable worry for at least 6 months characterize generalized anxiety disorder. First-line treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy or pharmacotherapy with a selective serotonin-reuptake or …

8 Tried And Tested Ways Of Overcoming Social Anxiety | TruthTheory

by Altheia Luna. Suffering from social anxiety is like tiptoeing along the edge of a very steep cliff. The slightest look, the subtlest tone of voice, the smallest gesture that anyone does can set you off into a tirade of insecure, …