Tag: second opinion

• Does everyone go through bipolar denial?

  

  My first acute episode of mental illness was psychotic depression. Looking back on it the whole thing was very scary compared to later instances: On discharge my sick note read “Mental illness”, nothing more specific. They hoped this was a one-off. I went back to work, continuing to attend as an outpatient for a year…

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  August 15, 2022

  Lived experience

  delusions, depression, diagnosis, hospitalisation, psychosis, second opinion, stigma, symptoms