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Destigmatizing Psych Meds
Choosing a treatment for mental health concerns is a very personal decision. Whatever you choose to do or not do should be thought out carefully and researched before you embark on your journey. However, one treatment method that I have consistently seen misrepresented and subject to fear mongering by people who either have no experience with it or who have had bad experiences with it is the use of psychotropic drugs. As a result of an irresponsible US pharmaceutical industry, the ability to both create and find a growing number of conspiracy theories and false information via the internet, the proliferation of negative experiences, and ignoring the lived experiences and testimonies…
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When You Can’t Win For Losing
The past year has been an extremely trying time for me. Despite accomplishing some great things and strengthening many friendships, I’ve been teetering on the edge of a complete breakdown, but trying to hide it. This past Friday is the day that I finally broke. This will be a long story, but I hope that you continue to read and it changes how you view the welfare/disability system and the people that have to rely on it. I’ve previously written about how important working is to me. So much so that I’ve tried year after year to work full time in the hopes that I would no longer need to…
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Internalized Stigma: Showing Up and Showing Out
I talk a lot about working to end the stigma around mental illness regarding the general public, but I never thought about addressing the internalized stigma that many diagnosed with a mental illness struggle with. I actually never even made the connection until recently. For months I’ve been depressed, but at a level where I am still able to function relatively well and most people haven’t noticed. However, the main symptom of this depression has been extreme exhaustion, coupled with unrelenting insomnia. Even knowing that these are common and typical symptoms of depression, I have still been looking for other medical causes. The other night it hit me that even…
