Mental illness: A patient's perspective 18 Articles

by Susan Hicks

Which came first - the chicken or the egg? Living with Depression Depression can lead to host of debilitating diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, drug addiction, and alcoholism to name just a few. For...read more

by Matthew Ryan

I was diagnosed as having bipolar mood disorder roughly ten years ago. In the beginning I was totally out of control. While manic, I left my apartment and friends to wander the countryside while suffering fits of quasi-...read more

by Meagan Ratcliff

I always knew something was wrong with me, and it wasn't because of the way I looked, the things that I said, or the way I acted. It was the way I felt on the inside. It wasn't anything that I could describe to anyone, and...read more

by Rebecca Anderson

Musings from a broken mind: From the outside everything seems normal, regular, we fit into everyone else's perception of what's right. However we see ourselves as different. We feel different. Feel as if we act differe...read more

by Screwloose

Pain raging through my veins, I dare try to explain this mental illness summed up as depression. Your body aches for someone to just climb inside your head and make the ups and downs of this disease, of this life go away....read more

by Katie Weller

We have a woman that comes to our house every day, Her name is Jerri. She was born mentally handicapped and has the intellectual capacity of around that of a seven year old. But what most people don't realize is that even ...read more

by Stuart Baker-Brown

It has been suggested that I should write this article almost as a stream of consciousness. So, immediately I think to myself, what is consciousness? In my view, it is an awareness of one's own position and reality, in o...read more

by Kathryn Kirby

Come along now as my thoughts wander off. Feel free to scream, cry or laugh. Feel the roller coaster ride of emotions that pass in a whirlwind display of insanity. Hold on tight, it has been known to be a hell of a ride. A...read more

by Eliza E.

Mental Illness has affected my life in many different ways. As some of you may have read from my last posts, I have bipolar disorder II. I also have severe social anxiety disorder, ADD, BPD, and have been possibly diagnose...read more

by Carmen Spectra

I didn't think I would die. I didn't think. Did I? Perhaps I thought I would sleep to escape the ever present hell my mind lived in. "Mental Illness is a foe to be reckoned with."! You can fight it, scream at it, hold ...read more

by William Abell

Bi-Polar From the Inside With the holidays approaching, I thought I'd write an article about what it's like to deal with this disorder, and techniques that I have used to cope. The holidays can be a very stressful tim...read more

by Sharon Soderbloom

I have struggled all my life with mental illness. My earliest memories are of panic attacks, followed by periods of deep depression. It took me years of struggle to get to the point where I realized not everyone felt thi...read more

by Nicole Dayton

"As Good As It Gets" I watched the movie "As Good As It Gets" and in the movie there are a lot of psychological concepts shown. For example, Jack Nicholsen plays a character that suffers from OCD or Obsessive Compu...read more

by Bernard Night

I am who I am, every week I work around six to sometimes, seven days a week. most of the time the people I work with, tell me they enjoy working with me. I work in a nursing home, looking after elderly residents in aged ...read more

by Miriam Dunn

Sometimes it occurs to me that my troubles are no worse or no better than anyone else's. An image, a metaphor, comes to mind; a frightening religious notion once told to me by a grade 8 teacher. It was about sins, and how,...read more

by Melissa Austin

The anxiety. The crying jags. The feeling of isolation. When I was originally diagnosed as not only bi-polar, but manic depressive and with general anxiey disorder, I felt as if I had been handed a life sentance withou...read more

by Sarah Points

Hopelessness, guilt, anxiety, experiencing numb feelings, these are all feelings I have had since I can remember. My parents finally took me to a doctor when I was 15, and the doctor just handed me some samples of Paxil a...read more

by Sherry Asbury

Mental Illness, How to Cope If you broke an arm and wore a cast, people would sympathize with you and sign your cast; all would be fine. If you cut yourself you would have a bandage and the same principles would apply....read more