Today I spoke to a good friend about a problem we face as people with severe mental illness: Getting your life back after you recover. Specifically, we talked about how to restore friendships and relationships after a severe episode of psychosis. It’s not easy, but here’s what I said, in a nutshell: As hard as […]
Category Archives: Psychosis
How Postpartum Depression is Different from Baby Blues | World of …
Today, even though we've made much progress, postpartum depression (PPD) still gets confused with baby blues. It still gets minimized and dismissed. Oh, don't worry. Being sad and sobbing are totally normal. So is feeling …
Schizophrenia and a damaging blame game – The Guardian
Letters: Blaming parents for schizophrenia is a resurrection of the situation in the 1960s and 70s, when conspiracy theories to explain schizophrenia did enormous harm to already devastated parents.
Oliver James is wrong to blame parents for their children's mental …
To completely discount inheritability of faulty genes when analysing diseases like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder beggars belief.
Report: Joining Physical & Behavioral Health | Psych Central News
A new set of policy recommendations that would improve the quality of behavioral health care patients receive in clinical settings has been developed by.