What can I say about medication? If I am being totally honest, I don’t know if I believe medications work. It’s not that I don’t think my illness has a biological component and I believe medication definitely has brought many people relief, but for myself, I do not know if it’s ever made even the … Continue reading Medication
Category: Diagnosis
What Resonates
When I was 15, and I got my official diagnosis, I went on a quest to learn about and understand my illness and to fight that isolation where it seemed no one shared all these feelings I was having, all the suffering. This was 1996, so I went to my local public library and checked … Continue reading What Resonates
Dissecting a Diagnosis.
I traditionally put a lot of stock in a diagnosis. It made, what was otherwise dismissed or denied in my adolescent years as teenage angst, feel real, acknowledged, validated. That need for a diagnosis persisted over the years, it felt like the only way I could get the world to see I wasn’t lazy, too … Continue reading Dissecting a Diagnosis.
Inside My Madness 