Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) involves excessive anxiety that often slows you down; and when it does, it can be maddening and stressful. Generalized anxiety disorder can make people feel as though they're tarred and …
Category Archives: Stigma
Video: Bringing Awareness to Mental Health | WCBI.com
Therapists and those who suffer from mental illnesses explain what can be done to help and how to remove the stigma of mental illness.
Psychiatry Can't Cure Mental Illness | Citizens Commission on …
“Treating mental illness rarely results in a 'cure,' per se.” He goes on to say that mental illness will spring back up time and time again, despite drugs and psychiatric therapy, which don't in fact do anything to stop the problem.
We need to talk about PTSD | openDemocracy
An injury can occur in the brain when we are unable to do something to protect either ourselves or another during a traumatic event: 'helpless' and 'hopeless' are the two components of both PTSD and suicide. We now know …
Mothering with an Invisible Mental Illness | Mental Illness in the …
I know you couldn't see my mental illness when you were sitting next to me at “Back to School” night. You couldn't see the medication I swallow twice a day, or the fourteen years of therapy that have equipped me to behave so …