mental health

Mental Health: Cindy's Story

Posted on May 20th, 2011

My sister and I became foster children when she was just four years old and I a mere two months of age. In the first five foster homes we had been kept together. It wasn’t until we arrived in our sixth placement that things would change.

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My Fifty Year War with OCD

Posted on February 4th, 2011

This thought hit my consciousness like a bolt of lightning out of the blue, “I could kill her!”

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Paranoid and Delusional Walks On a Sheet of Paper: Bipolar Disorder

Posted on July 24th, 2010

I’m yelling at an empty room, having paused for a few minutes from communicating telepathically with several beautiful young women in the food court. God speaks through me, explaining that midnight is the judgment hour.

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Getting TMS at Yale

Posted on August 11th, 2009

I have had treatment-resistant auditory hallucinations -- voices which order me to cut or kill myself -- since I was 14 and I am 53 now. Consequently, I searched the Internet for a clinical trial that used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation or rtms which is an experimental treatment for voices.

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Sheela, My Schizophrenic Sister

Posted on January 6th, 2009

Is it the same story all over the world?

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Some Adult Mental Health Concerns

Posted on June 9th, 2008

Do you ever get so mad that everything just turns brown and white, and you start hitting the wall and your hand starts bleeding, but you don’t even notice until you wake up later? I mean you are so angry that you have to hurt someone, and there is no one to hurt but yourself?

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