stigma
People with mental illness represent one of the most deeply stigmatized groups in our culture. Learn more about it here.
Common Myths And Misconceptions About Anorexia
People have many misconceptions approximately anorexia. Due to bad know-how of the phenomenon or because of various popular myths surrounding eating problems, the majority assimilate denatured ideas concerning anorexia and the men and women it impacts.
By Writer Tiger4 years ago in Psyche
How to Fly with Two Wheels. Top Story - January 2022.
Dear Stranger, You ask why I bike fast. Maybe you didn’t exactly ask, but your tone told me your comment was a question. Humans have long envied birds. We have an instinctive hunger to experience the unknown and push the limits of impossibility. In this instance, it manifests in a desire to harness the wind. We see the birds wheeling above; we see trees bending and snapping under the strength of simple air. And we want it. Children fly kites and make paper airplanes – when they grow up, they build jets and helicopters and hang gliders.
By Starlight Storm4 years ago in Psyche
Just How Ridiculous is the Stockholm Syndrome?
Abuse, captivity, terror, pain, and sometimes even murder. After experiencing these traumas, some individuals develop an emotional bond with their captors. Would you be capable of seeing the justification of your captor’s action and be unwilling to testify?
By T.P.Bloomfield4 years ago in Psyche
Exploring The Link Between OCD and Perfectionism
By Steven Booth, Founder, Elevation Behavioral Health We all know a perfectionist or two—maybe even ourselves. Perfectionists tend to be high achievers, goal oriented and driven personalities. They are highly self-critical and accept nothing less than perfection from themselves.
By Elevation Behavioral Health4 years ago in Psyche
Acrophobia- The fear from hight
There are varying ranges of fear with regards to heights. Some reluctantly manage experiences at height but may take a remedy to help get via the ordeal, and literally can’t wait till the revel in is over. Others are crippled by using fear and received even attempt three flights of stairs for worry of searching over the banister, and some think nothing of riding 50 miles out of the manner to keep away from going over a bridge.
By Malik Awan4 years ago in Psyche
Inside My Natural Brain
He asked if I’d ever been evaluated for ADHD. I think I literally laughed at him. It was absurd. I’d been an exceedingly good student. I could focus so tightly on things it was hard to get my attention away. There were never any discipline problems or anything like that. I was in my mid-thirties and overwhelmed with all the usual family, work, and so forth, that’s all.
By Cathi Allen4 years ago in Psyche
Ride the Lightning
I do not recall the exact date or month, or even a really coherent narrative of how I found myself an inpatient at a psychiatric hospital in the Borough of Queens, city of New York. However, I do know that it was not the first hospital I was admitted to. Nor were any of the events transpiring not of my choice. I have for some time been realizing that things, somethings, then everything, were somehow not quite right. Part of the recipe here was the fact that I was involved in a near fatal motor vehicle accident, upon my ejection from my vehicle a good Samaritan at the scene thought it proper to drape a blanket over me as she was convinced there was a dead body on the side of the road, and the decent thing to do would be to shield others from such a sight.
By Michael Capriola4 years ago in Psyche
Men and Depression
Studies show that men are less likely to report a depressive episode than women. Men are less likely to be diagnosed with depression than women. Because of the stigma, they are also less likely to seek treatment. Men are more likely to exhibit anger or aggression than sadness or hopelessness when depressed. Clinical depression can affect men just as it does women and should not be taken lightly. If you're a man struggling with depression, do not hesitate to reach out for help.
By Matthew Angelo4 years ago in Psyche
Episodic Meltdown of Nothing
Going through motions. Silence, pressure, nothing. That's what it feels like. Nothing. Waking up to the confines of self. Not pressured, not rejuvenated. Motivation escapes this mind as the clouds of lost freedom drags me through its atmosphere. Not really living but neither dying as well. A sense of limbo that is just as is. You stay in stagnation for a wave to move by. No hope but the interest of what will take me away. What will change my mind and flip this switch where my mind goes in silence. Triggered by the thought you move around this weight of existence to understand the state you're in. You move your hands around the objects.
By The Kind Quill4 years ago in Psyche
How a Lipstick Named Gabrielle Fixed My Broken Self
If I’d broken my leg, things would have been entirely different. What is it about a plaster cast that allows strangers to ask what happened? A broken arm, from a slip on the ice. A fractured femur, the result of a skiing accident. Suddenly, the boundary of appropriate questioning breaks down into curiosity, then sympathy. Or the sharing of a similar experience, and comments about healing times and rehabilitation.
By Catherine Kenwell4 years ago in Psyche
