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A Man Owning His Shame
Embed from Getty Images—Shame on YouLast week, the Real Men Feel podcast I host explored fears. I’ve been experiencing a lot of fear over the past few weeks with family health concerns, financial...
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Here’s to the Jedi Therapists
Embed from Getty Images__Some of you know I see a therapist every week. Every. Single. Week. She’s absolutely brilliant, and she understands that mental health treatment isn’t like other types of...
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Live Tweeting My Breakup Landed Me In A Mental Hospital
Embed from Getty ImagesContent Notice: suicidal imagesSometimes the best ideas with the best of intentions crash and burn like a wreck at the Indy 500. That’s what happened with my decision to live...
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I Slept With Charles Bukowski and He Saved My Life
Embed from Getty ImagesI did. I really did sleep with Charles Bukowski. What? Don’t look at me like that. At least hear me out. You’re so cynical. Charles is too, but he’s not as bad as you.Look, it...
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The Discomfort of the Mirror: Silver Linings Playbook, Bipolar, and Me
—Ryan W. Bradley squirms through a film about a man like he was, not long ago: undiagnosed, violent, and about to hit bottom.It’s disconcerting to watch a movie about yourself. Maybe even more so when...
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The Mental Health Survival Kit
Embed from Getty ImagesOops, you’ve gone down hard into serious depression again haven’t you Mr Bipolar?Didn’t sleep for days and jammed some bad things into your body. Did some bad things to your...
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Endurance and the Spoils of the Mental Health War
Embed from Getty ImagesThis is what my Doc and my psychologist said to me when I was diagnosed with bipolar: “Ryan, you have a very serious mental illness that will see you experience extremely...
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Book Review: Clown & I – A Bipolar Memoir
I hated clowns growing up, my mother had freakish looking marionette clowns that hung lifelessly from the dark timber pelmet above the bar in our living room. I suppose their orange and sky-blue suits...
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My Bipolar Freakshow
Embed from Getty Images—Behold!Hi kids… watch out! I’m Bipolar — the “bad” kind. Bipolar I.I’m that particular brand of crazy where the world seems to bend to my will before swirling in on my psyche...
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We Are A Culture Obsessed With Productivity — And It’s Literally Killing Us
—The hardest thing about taking a handful of psych meds every day isn’t the fact that it takes more than one glass of water to take them because I can only manage to choke down one or two a time. It...
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Experience Music—Music Moves Me From Pain to Purpose
This article is the second in a series about the way we experience music, how it soundtrack our lives, and the way it helps us heal. Read the first article in the series written by Evan Stein, founder...
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Journey of a Wikipedian
— There’s no one moment when you go insane; not when you find yourself crying into a phone behind a closet door or tapping your foot to neutralize thoughts you can’t handle or sleeping on a bed of worn...
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Just a Little Unwell? On the Good and Bad Parts of a Manic Episode
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell I know right now you can’t tell But stay awhile and maybe then you’ll see A different side of me –from “Unwell” by Matchbox 20 Matchbox 20’s early 2000s hit...
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How I’ve Been Grieving Lately
Before my father passed away, I planned to attend the Sunriver Writers’ Summit. Unfortunately, the summit followed only a month after his death, and I felt too raw to attend. Social gatherings...
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Ben Gordon Becomes The Latest NBA Player To Speak Out About Mental Health
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Mental illness touches everybody. Every community, every person. Either you or somebody you love...
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Authoritarian Parent, Childhood (and Adult) Depression
The current mental disorder paradigm, which transforms reactions to life into medical-sounding conditions, acts as if depression is a disease. We have lost sight of the obvious truth that life can make...
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Does Mental Illness Get Worse With Age?
By Chloe Sparks Mental health issues are not exclusive to any demographic. People of any age can be dealing with either psychological or physiological issues that impact their mental health. Advocacy...
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5 Lessons I Learned From Surviving Childhood Abuse
The disadvantages of growing up in a traumatic environment are relatively well understood. Early childhood trauma is a risk factor for almost everything, from adult depression to PTSD and most...
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10 Mental Health Disorders That Can Appear During Childhood
If you’re a parent, your child’s mental health should be of utmost importance. This article will discuss some of the most common conditions that can affect kids so that you can recognize the signs,...
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Are You Bipolar? A New Way To Live With the UPS and Downs of Life
I was relieved and terrified when I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic-depressive illness. Relieved because I now had a name for the problems that seemed to be...
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