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Shelby’s recovery story June 17, 2008 by giannakali I met Shelby in one of my many email groups. Shelby agreed to share her story on my blog. It is a story of a trauma which led to legitimate suffering leading to psychiatric diagnosis and the spiral downhill once on the drugs that happens to too many people.

Imagine being 8 years old and diagnosed with Type 1 DIabetes. Imagine being admitted to hospital with DKA time after time because insulin therapy and living with Diabetes were the least of your worries. Imagine living in a town with a population of 100, hardly a dot on a map, and innocently revealing your sexuality to your family, and therefore the entire community.

Dual Recovery Anonymous is an independent, nonprofessional, twelve step, self-help fellowship organization for people with a dual diagnosis. Our goal is to help men and women who experience a dual illness. We are chemically dependent (alcoholic / addict) and we are also affected by an emotional or psychiatric illness.

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Britney Spears' stay in the psychiatric ward. Or has it? The docs have the latest on the state of her mental health ... It's been four months since she was held at a psychiatric facility.

I finally sat down and read all those posts that I linked to about Bipolar Overawareness Week. I mentioned in my previous post that I feel like I had a contrarian view. Well, I do. Somewhat. Although it's probably not as contrarian as I'd think. Let's take my experience, for example.

I finally sat down and read all those posts that I linked to about Bipolar Overawareness Week. I mentioned in my previous post that I feel like I had a contrarian view. Well, I do. Somewhat. Although it's probably not as contrarian as I'd think. Let's take my experience, for example.

Celebrating Bipolar Overawareness Week May 13, 2008 by giannakali Both Philip at Furious Seasons and CL Psych are asking questions about the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder. (Philip adds more on this topic since I wrote this–the evidence is piling up) CL psych goes as far as to suggest that

Treatment Advocacy Center Supports Giving Incompetent Diagnosticians More Power To Force Treatment on Citizens Posted on May 12, 2008 by hymes The Treatment Advocacy Center’s blog today cites the new study that shows that bipolar disorder is being diagnosed in folks who do not have it in large

From the wikipedia article for Psychopathy, here is Dr. Robert D. Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised: Factor1: "Aggressive narcissism" * Glibness/superficial charm * Grandiose sense of self-worth * Pathological lying * Cunning/manipulative * Lack of remorse or guilt * Shallow affect *

Adolescent Depression-The Severity! April 16th, 2008 Admin Posted in depression | No Comments » Since 20th century depression is as the major psychiatric disease, affecting eight million people approximately in North America.