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Personality Disorders And Medication

By on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 | No Comments

There was an article over at the huffington post about the new DSM that is scheduled to be released in 2013 and there was a lot of talk with my Facebook friends (Terry Untreatable) about the DSM being basically a money grab for insurance companies. Now I live North of the border so the health [...]

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Dual Diagnosis Conflicts

By on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 | No Comments

There has been a ton of talk following the death of Amy Winehouse abut the possibility of dual diagnosis. Typically a dual diagnosis is the combination of a substance abuse problem and a mental illness. Unfortunately there are a ton of people who meet the criteria and when you are talking about borderline personality disorder [...]

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Amy Winehouse Found Dead Photos

By on Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Amy Winehouse Dead At 27 Pictures Singer and troubled musician Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London home, she was twenty seven years old. Amy Winehouse who has been in and out of rehab for the last few years and had been hospitalized numerous time for a variety of health problems related to [...]

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Fair Weather Friends

By on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

I received a message on Facebook the other day from a friend I have not heard from in a very long time. This person knew that in the last six years I had separated from my wife, ended up living alone and of course was diagnosed with all sorts of wonderful things. This person came [...]

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BPD Did You Know

By on Friday, July 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Borderline Personality Disorder Did You Know? – More people have Borderline Personality Disorder than Bipolar Disorder- Borderline Personality Disorder has a higher suicide rate than depression- Up to two percent of the population has Borderline Personality Disorder- The name of Borderline Personality Disorder comes from back in the day when psychiatric illness was classified as [...]

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Coming Off Of Mental Meds

By on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 | No Comments

There has been a ton of searches lately regarding withdrawal of Pristiq so I figured I would go through a number of tips that have helped me coming off of a variety of mental meds 1. Make sure your doctor/shrink/counselor/family members know that you are coming off of your medication. I have seen way too [...]

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Blame It On The Drugs

By on Thursday, June 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Medication and mental illness go hand in hand, that is just the way it is and for some of us that is the way it will always be. I have spent months in therapy and when I reached the end I felt better about a number of issues that I have been lugging around for [...]

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It Is Always A Choice

By on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 | 1 Comment

I was talking with a family member whose son suffers from mental illness and she was saying that she and her husband were amazed that I have gone through what I have gone through over the last six years basically alone. I replied it is a choice. Now some people who have never suffered from [...]

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The Problem With Scars

By on Friday, June 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment

There have been periods of my life where I resorted to self harm and although I am not ashamed to admit to it the behavior has led to marks which will never really go away. Look at my inner arms and it is pretty apparent what took place to most people but the problem lies [...]

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Everything Has A Price

By on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 | No Comments

When I first began to take prescription medication in order to help my poor brain out I thought it was just a temporary thing that within months the chemicals would “fix” my brain and then the meds would be history. That was a long time ago. In the last five to six years I have [...]

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