The Main Course My favourite psychiatric article this week was on schizophrenia. Specifically, the piece from X-Ray Technican Schools (I agree that this seems a curious place to have an article on schizophrenia) provided a concise, accessible but intelligent refutation of the many myths that surround this illness. One of my pet hates is the [...]
Award-winning blog on therapy, borderline personality disorder, complex PTSD, major depression, social anxiety and transient psychosis / dissociation.
About the Author
WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING, POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING, MATERIAL AND VERY STRONG LANGUAGE.
Your humble narrator is a female in her late 20s from Northern Ireland, attempting to find her way through the labyrinth that is NHS mental health services. Her diagnoses are a convoluted mishmash of:
- borderline personality disorder
- complex post-traumatic stress disorder
- bipolar II disorder
- major clinical depression
- social anxiety and
- transient psychosis and dissociation.
Through intense psychotherapy, she is attempting to recover from child sex abuse, as well as issues of abandonment, betrayal and self-harm.
Much more information can be found on the 'About' page. See below for the archives if you want the full context and detailed story since May 2009.
Key Honour-ish Nice Things of Joy
I HAZ TWATTER
Follow Follow Tweet Tweet - I'm in the Republic for Iron Maiden gig, woo. Already intermittent contact may be even more so as I search for wifi. Have a good weekend x
- @anniebananie76 @excludeduk @hopefortrauma Thanks for #ff lovelies :) <3 x
- @theblacklily @iamechad @hovellinghermit @excludeduk @hidi @zebrapolkadots @crazy333girl @ophelia83 @goddess221167 Meant a lot :) Thanks x
- @theblacklily @iamechad @hovellinghermit @excludeduk @hidi @zebrapolkadots @crazy333girl @ophelia83 @goddess221167 Thks for support&tweets x
- RT @BeyondMeds: RT @hyblis I have always found the rampant promotion of CBT to be a kind of cynical marketing exercise...
- Just had the fun of sitting through what was inevitably going to be a difficult session whilst in the throes of an IBS attack. FML.
Some of the Mad ‘Uns Who Follow
I Wish to Acknowledge…
I Iz Watching You Innit
No Theft or I Will Cry :-(
Confessions of a Serial Insomniac by Pandora is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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