Frozen in an eternal now – the agony of being a carer
Filing papers, picking apples.
There were two things – one big and one small – that I’d never managed to get done in all the...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Families, Fear, and the Machinery of Severe Mental Illness
Editor's note: the author and those named below are pseudonyms.
I first wrote this piece while my husband Adam was the subject of a Patient Safety...
“I Can’t Remember a Single Day”: New Survey Shows Disastrous Memory Effects of ECT
Editor's note: this blog is published jointly with our affiliate site Mad in America
What are we without our memories? Or the ability to make...
The daily life of a ‘schizophrenic’
My pov as a ‘schizophrenic’
On good days, I get out of bed before noon.
I brush my teeth. Brush my hair. Drink something. Maybe half...
Guilty by Diagnosis: How Stigma Replaced Justice
“Once a diagnosis is declared incurable, it stops being medicine. It turns into a lifelong sentence and a weapon, used by insiders, supported by...