psychiatry

She was beautiful; I wanted to love her. But there was this nagging voice inside me: "What if I can’t love this baby as much as my son? Is there enough love for both of my children?"

I’m not broken by this therapy failure. Jane wasn't the person to help me at this point of my life. Someone else WILL be.

Thanks to awareness campaigns, programs and organisations, our general understanding and recognition of mental illness is improving. However, it’s impossible to imagine what life with depression or anxiety or schizophrenia is like if you’ve never been diagnosed with one of these conditions. A recent Reddit thread provides a heart-wrenching insight into the realities and challenges of these illnesses — in the words of people living with them. [In December], Redditor theone1221 asked psychiatrists and psychologists to share “the most profound or insightful thing” they had ever heard from a patient with a mental illness.

I don’t want your green smoothie recipe, your yoga pamphlet, or your Google search results on the meds I take.

When we make medications seem like a failure rather than a simple necessity, we make the people who take them feel like failures, too.

Anxiety collects in my gut like phlegm-thickened water when there is hair in the drain. It sits and builds and gets thicker and starts to smell gross.

A young woman became pregnant after being raped, was denied an abortion and then forced to undergo an emergency C-section.

New research suggests that seemingly irrational fears may stem from traumatic memories passed down through the generations.