Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Jen Trauma is a strong negative experience that can be physical, emotional, psychological, sexual or anything that impacts the victim in a severely negative way. What could just be ‘unpleasant’ for one person could damage someone else for life. Because of this fact you must never say that someone has Continue Reading
By Jennifer Catherine Dissociation is a normal mental process where an individual will disconnect from their thoughts, emotions, feelings and personality. The most common and “acceptable” forms of dissociation are daydreaming, zoning out, high-way hypnosis or loss of focus during reading or watching TV. Like all mental health ‘issues’, this Continue Reading
By Christina Lepore Patricia is four years old. She covers her face under the scoop-neck of her blue flannel nightgown. She hides in terror under the covers in her white canopy bed. Now, decades later, she loses time and sometimes wakes up in the fetal position in her closet. Patricia Continue Reading
By Jennifer Catherine So, yesterday I had a psychology appointment and I got the results back for possible diagnoses. For approximately three years I have been going through the process of figuring out what was going on in my mind. And to finally have some answers is such a relief. Continue Reading
in 2005, I became so ill that I checked myself into a long-term mental health facility. But the staff said Dissociative Identity Disorder did not exist.
As traumatized children, we avoided insanity by forming alters and amnesiac barriers. This becomes a huge problem in adulthood.
I live with the double whammy of major depression and dissociative identity disorder. There is a certain time of the year when I fall into the abyss.