medicine
The medicalization of mental illness has given rise to many forms of pharmacological relief that restore chemical imbalances in one's brain.
Magnesium: Nature’s Anti-Depressant
If you’re like millions of other North Americans, chances are you suffer from depression or anxiety. Many of us resort to taking prescription medication. It is incredibly easy to get prescription medication for anxiety or depression. I’ve been told by general practitioners that taking medication for it is as “common as mud.” Is this a testament to our society? A lack of resiliency or an over dependence on pharmaceuticals? Perhaps a combination. But, what can be done about it?
By Michelle Glavic8 years ago in Psyche
Living Psychogenic
Psychogenic pain disorder; something most of will go our entire lives without hearing about. Even fewer of us will ever have the opportunity to learn about it, quite possibly because most of us will never experience, nor will we know anyone who experiences, this pain firsthand.
By Kamryn Davis8 years ago in Psyche
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 Watcher9 years ago in Psyche
