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Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship

By on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is crucial to survival. Dr. Christine Ann Lawson vividly describes how mothers who suffer from borderline personality disorder [...]

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Getting Through Mental Illness

By on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | No Comments

More than six years ago I found myself at the bottom of a well facing a future that did not seem to exist. For whatever the reason my brain decided to declare war and I was the target. There were times when I thought it would never end and there were times when I though [...]

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It Has Been Awhile

By on Sunday, April 8th, 2012 | No Comments

It has been awhile since I last wrote so figured I ought to pop in and say hello. For the last five months or so I have returned to the workforce and working basically full time hours. The job is nothing special but it is a starting point so that is what is important right [...]

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Suicidal teen has to find help in U.S.

By on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 | No Comments

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Ontario’s health-care system failed Cassandra Genovy miserably. It’s only thanks to her relentless mother and a reality television show that the once troubled teen has clawed her way back from the brink of death to overcome her eating disorder, drug addiction and severe depression. “Had I waited for treatment in Ontario I’d [...]

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Depression And The Five Stages Of Grief

By on Monday, September 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Normally when someone is referring to the five stages of grief they are talking about physical death where the person has just received notice that they have not much longer to live. Today I was going through the five stages of grief and how they apply to mental illness most notably depression so that is [...]

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An Interesting Week

By on Saturday, September 10th, 2011 | No Comments

I realized about a week and a half ago that my supply of Pristiq was quickly diminishing and after failing to get hold of my doctor due to a new answering service that does not work whatsoever. Anyway on Monday I cut my normal dose in half so I was taking fifty mg of Pristiq [...]

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Mental Illness In The News

By on Sunday, September 4th, 2011 | No Comments

It seems that every time mental illness hits the news it is never good. Over the last few months there has been a series of suicides that have hit the NHL and of course now there is fallout. Apparently all of the hockey players who have taken their own lives had been dealing with depression [...]

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Dangers Of Mental Medication

By on Thursday, August 25th, 2011 | 1 Comment

There was a report today about the antidepressant Celexa (citalopram) and it made me think about all of the mental medications out on the marketplace. First of all scientist have found that taking Celexa at the highest dosage of 60mg may be causing damage to your heart. It turns out when Celexa was going through [...]

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Sleep The Great Escape

By on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

When you are dealing with depression sleep becomes the great escape for once your eyes shut all of the problems, over thinking, negative thoughts and the rest of the garbage disappears at least for a little while. The problem with sleep is that all you want to do so you spend hours in bed and [...]

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Gail Porter Mental Hospital Account Photos

By on Sunday, August 14th, 2011 | 1 Comment

‘I was drugged up to the eyeballs with men who thought they were Jesus’: Gail Porter gives haunted account of her three weeks sectioned Just after 8am on a spring morning in April, television presenter Gail Porter crouched under a tree on London’s Hampstead Heath and sent a text message to her boyfriend that read: [...]

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