Tag: symptoms
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Memory, language and my psychosis
Language, symbols and memories play a significant role in my psychoses
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Diagnostic overshadowing, insight and self-stigma
I had lived with bipolar for years when I first came across the term, “diagnostic overshadowing”, in an online forum discussion about mental illness. It means where a clinician may privilege mental illness diagnosis over what the person is saying and other symptoms, assigning them to your mental health condition. Perhaps because I am articulate,…
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“Dogged by an unfair foe”
Quoted from her family about Naomi Judd, American country music star, who died earlier this year by suicide and who lived with PTSD and bipolar it is revealed. Yes, bipolar disorder is unfair. Just when you think you have things back on track – it can take me anything from six months to a year…
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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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“Is being mentally ill normal?”
This is one of those auto suggested queries from Google when you start typing, so I guess quite a few people ask it. I have had five hospital admissions, including the last one, ten years ago, under the Mental Health Act, as a compulsory patient. In one earlier case, although I was very unwell and…
