People with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder are no strangers to taking medication. Often, they take multiple medications, like me. I take so much medication I have trouble keeping track of it. But I take medication for …
Category Archives: Stigma
How Slavery's Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans …
Events like Charleston put a spotlight on the growing body of literature that looks not only at the United States' failure to have authentic conversations about slavery and its legacy but also at the mental health impact of …
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Ableism | Creative …
People with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder deal with stigma every day, but they have to deal with ableism as well. Ableism assumes that everyone functions at the normative capacity; and that's just not true, …
How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield – Vanity Fair
The U.S. military now has the highest rate of post-traumatic stress disorder in its history. Sebastian Junger investigates.
PTSD: The War Disorder That Goes Far Beyond the Battlefield …
The first time I experienced what I now understand to be post-traumatic stress disorder, I was in a subway station in New York City, where I live. It was almost a year before the attacks of 9/11, and I'd just come back from two months in …