I Know Now… I Can Get Back Here, to My Real Life. By Annette Has a mental health provider ever told you that you could reach a personal goal despite your psychiatric diagnosis? I will graduate from my masters in educational technology in April…I was told that because of my sensitivity to sleep disturbances that…
Be Positive and Never Give Up By Catherine Penney Be cautious about medication I was given a diagnosis of Schizophrenia and took prescribed anti- psychotic medication for less than a year, 1968-1969 more than ten years ago. I did not at all find them helpful. They made me feel numb and I experienced horrific side…
Normalcy or Health is the Ability to Work and Love By Johanna Medication can be helpful but watch out for the harmful effects. Mainly short – term, in crisis situations. Benzodiazepines, if I can stay away from too frequent use, have helped in a crisis and helped me break a cycle of distress based on…
Nothing is Impossible By Ellen During your mental health care, have you often felt hopeful about your chance of getting better? Yes. My greatest hope has come from meeting other people who have recovered and made good lives for themselves. I see what is possible and I keep moving forward. My spiritual faith has also…
Breaking Your Heart Open Into Compassion Alina I needed to be in a safe place I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and psychosis. I’m not sure that the medication has been helpful. I think I just needed to be in a safe place away from my unhealthy family environment and I probably would have gotten…
Harness the Energy! Cassie Fewer and fewer bad days. I’ve had lots of different diagnoses. There was a time when it felt like the more medication and diagnoses I got, the worse I felt. I began to think of myself as a screw up, who was self-destructive and crazy. I started to feel so bad…
Living Life in the Way YOU Find Most Fulfilling Amanda Back I finished college I’ve had several diagnoses over the years including Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Generalised Anxiety and Psychosis. I’ve been prescribed lots of different kinds of medication in the past, none of which suited me, but this is my first year off it all.…
The Brain Can Return Itself to Equilibrium Wendy Dixon In what ways have you found psychiatric medication(s) helpful, if any? Antipsychotics are evil. I did find Epival and Prozac very carefully balanced to keep me in a state of wellness. Of course no one ever suggested after my major psychotic break that I could go…
Purpose and Meaning Christina Walko During your mental health care, have you often felt hopeful about your chance of getting better? Yes. Not much due to mental health care,but due to pastoral counseling and believing God can heal and talking to others who have healed and are now off of medication and working, functioning excellently…
You Are Not Your Illness Rene Buchanan During your mental health care, have you often felt hopeful about your chance of getting better? No. I did not feel hopeful until I met a therapist who actually treated me like a person instead of a disease. During your mental health care, have you often felt hopeless…