No Cate

Illness is intensely personal, but it never affects the person diagnosed alone.

To knowingly include stories with deeply problematic themes strikes me as just adding fuel to the fire.

When our boy was a toddler his emotional outbursts only received quick glances. Now that my five-year-old has officially entered boyhood, his crying looks awkward on him; he gets full-on stares.

Recovery from narcissistic abuse comes in stages. The early stages are chaotic and, at times, you feel as if you have no control over your recovery.

This self-absorbed womanizer is my narcissistic father. And many of us have them.

It’s taken me a long time to write about this topic because I’m not an eating disorder specialist or clinician.

The kind of lethargic, extreme fatigue that leaves you exhausted to your very core might be caused by what is known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

I hadn't been to a club like this one — the kind full of straight men who are probably homophobic and at least a little coercive, who smell like Old Spice deodorant and have enough disposable income to keep an open tab (the kind of men I'd been taught were "a catch") — for a very, very long time. I tried to remember exactly how long. A decade? More?