In the mental health community, pill shaming seems to happen more often than not. I personally have heard people I know in real life post “well-meaning” things on social media that say, “I don’t take pills because I’m more aware of what I put into my body.” This, flat out, is pill shaming. By saying …
It’s no secret that I’ve been through ECT, otherwise known as “shock” therapy. I’ve talked about it before. I’ve done interviews on the subject of ECT. Six years were spent going through ECT, and I had probably close to 150 – 200 treatments. I went through several acute series and years of maintenance treatments. I …
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If there’s one thing that makes me angry, it’s when mental illness is written poorly in fiction. Bipolar is not just happy and sad. Schizophrenia is not multiple personalities. Over the years, people with mental illness have also been portrayed as violent. The truth is that people with mental illness are ten times more likely …