I Mental Health

I have Bipolar Disorder II. My greatest fear in the world is being put in a mental hospital. I've just always sort of known that one day the police would beat me down. Call me paranoid. Everyone else does. Or did. Until last week...

I'm a cancer survivor. :) I had stage 2 cancer. After this I had to go to the psych ward of several occasions. The psych said the chemo may have given me a chemical imbalance in my brain. I don't hear voices, but a voice that torments...

You see, Bipolar Disorder is a medical condition. I'm a person. But now that you mention it, I do happen to have the medical condition of Bipolar Disorder II. You don't say, "Poor John, I hear he is cancer." I am not Bipolar; I have...

i just had the worst 5 days of my life
nothing but anger and misery
i wish these days wouldn't have happend
i got scared because it seemed to me like
i was putting myself in danger
how can one be so angry at the world
it made me wonder...

This is something I read in a book lately and it left a real impression on me. It's very simple, but powerful especially for someone with a low self esteem like me. It just talked about the fact that one should admire himself if he...

Well, my bipolar schizoaffective boyfriend, 'Peter' (not his real name) has now left me & gone to Denver, CO, to live life & have me 'eventually' join him. Well, he was locked up in a state mental hospital for 4 mos., 6 mos, 8 mos...

I am here for one thing only help. I can't talk to my family I can't find a therapist I am feeling as if in an endless hell. I fail to see a point and happiness in life every morning I wake dreading the day ahead and I think soon I am...

Last year because of some chemical imbalances I spent 72 hours in a behavioral unit at a hospital.

I met a young man that was one of the saddest people I have ever seen. He just sat in a corner all day and cried. He had no family and...

After my divorce some years ago I ran completely off the rails.So far off I simply made my own track by ploughing the ground under me as I raced ever onwards.I know, looking back it is an easy route for my character to take. Smashing...

what is going on with these killings?i don't see these killers as insane.as they go to school and work jobs ,pay their bills and function other wise.not insane,mean and very dark.