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We Shouldn’t Need a Day of Our Own

Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Everybody in the United States is terribly aware the second Sunday in May is Mother's Day -- the floral and greeting card industries won’t let you forget it. Mother's Day is big business. (Whether people ...
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Another Antidepressant Journey

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Today I have spent a lot of time on the phone with both a nurse and my psychiatrist. Our big topic of the day? How to get me off Celexa. I started ...
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Sylvia Plath’s Legacy

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
For someone who has only read her biography and never read any of Sylvia Plath’s actual poetry, I spend an awful lot of time thinking about her. That’s because I suffer from chronic depression ...
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin By Norah Vincent New York: Viking, December 2008 Hardcover, 283 pages $25.95 Immersion journalism, as it’s called, can be kind of fun on a limited basis. In my days ...
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The Healing Power of a Good Therapist

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. —D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971 Thirteen years ago I gave birth to my very much wanted third child. Eight months later I ended up in ...
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Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, Part 2

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
The Heebee-Jeebies Be careful when you wrestle with monsters, lest you thereby become one. For, if you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you. -- Friedrich Nietszche Now I ...
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Living with Schizoaffective Disorder

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Being schizoaffective is like having manic depression and schizophrenia at the same time. It has a quality all its own though which is harder to pin down. Manic depression is characterized by a cycle of ...
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Denied for Being Myself: An Attempt To Be Hospitalized

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Within my most powerful episodes of depression, I would awake each morning, shower, apply makeup, and attempt to create a fabulous outfit. My worst appearance offense during these periods would be to go out ...
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My Battle with Childhood Sexual Abuse

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
My first memory of emotional abuse was when I was three years old. Mum left me with the next door neighbour who was the local flasher. He didn't think anything of showing himself to ...
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Overcoming Childhood Abuse and Neglect

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
My mother left when I was 3. I bounced around without a home — lived with my grandparents, sometimes my father, sometimes aunts and uncles. I suffered horrendous abuse. Emotional, physical, sexual… sometimes I think ...
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Living with Depression

Friday, September 8th, 2006
Amy, a 68 year-old retired clinical social worker living in Virginia, has struggled with depression for more than 40 years. Twenty-four years passed before she received a diagnosis. Her mood disorder was treated as a ...
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I Grew Up in Poverty

Thursday, May 25th, 2006
I grew up in poverty, in a family of 9 children in rural Maine. We had a small sustenance farm with animals and a very large garden. I have no memories of being hungry, but ...
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Only 16

Thursday, May 25th, 2006
I am currently 16 years old and live in New Jersey. When I was 6 years old, my parents got a divorce and I moved around New Jersey and New York State a few times. ...
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A Long and Arduous Journey

Thursday, May 25th, 2006
I was born in a small town in Florida during the late 1940s. My mother had undiagnosed and untreated schizophrenia and my father was a man of some power within the community who was ...
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The Real Me

Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Everyone who cared had tried to help me for so long, but nothing was working. The elders of my church, although they placed no confidence in psychology, didn’t know what else to do. They offered ...
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