medicine
The medicalization of mental illness has given rise to many forms of pharmacological relief that restore chemical imbalances in one's brain.
Losing
Over the past few years, I’ve lost some great people that I thought I wouldn’t be able to live without. None of them have died, but I can’t tell if that’s good or bad news seeing as how they left my life of their own volition for whatever reason, and weren’t taken into the depths of the Underworld, land of the dead, to be presided over by Hades himself. The newest additions to this band of “Shimmy deserters,” as I’ve come to know them as, include a great father figure (the closest person I’ve ever had to an actual father) and his son that was practically a brother to me. I was accepted into their family, joining the ranks of the Shipleys with incredible enthusiasm, but like all things that seem to good to be true, my time with them came to an abrupt and heart-breaking end.
By Shimmy Hunter8 years ago in Psyche
For Better or for Worse?
When I was approximately 30 years old I was diagnosed with depression. For me, that was not really news but just a statement of fact, an understanding that no matter the good times ahead or the bad this would likely be an aspect of myself that would continuously be there and would be a hindrance to my life and possibly the lives of my family.
By Rhiannon Watcher8 years ago in Psyche
