mental health

When Depression Swallowed Me
I knew that I had lost it. The ability to keep emotions under control had gone. In fact, I had absolutely no idea where my life was heading to. Miserable, wretched, and pathetic.
Trichotillomania: Picking Purgatory
I was born into a middle-class family in the heartland of America in1952 and grew up with undiagnosed trichotillomania. For over forty years I honestly believed that I was the only person on the planet who pulled out her eyelashes.
pregnant in mental hospital
I always felt that news of my pregnancy made her feel bad about her own child. I would be keeping my child, she could not. I received congratulations, she had received scorn.
Fifty Years of OCD
This thought hit my consciousness like a bolt of lightning out of the blue, “I could kill her!”
Paranoid and Delusional Walks
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.
Getting TMS at Yale
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...
Adult Mental Health Concerns
Do you ever get so mad that everything just turns brown and white, and you start hitting the wall and your hand starts bleeding...
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