Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’
On hearing voices, dissociation & being labelled - ugh! - ‘paranoid schizophrenic’.
I may go about my life, like most other people, maintaining my place...
“Disordered eating is a symptom showing us that a person is experiencing distress”
In my opinion, in the area of mental health, we talk too much about disorders and not enough about recovery and freedom.
In 1952,...
Part 2: Are we all neurodivergent nowadays?
Editor’s Note: Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in...
Part 1: Neurodiversity—what exactly does it mean?
Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing a four-part series on neurodiversity over the next four weeks. The series was...
Unquestioningly striving to adapt to harmful circumstances may be self-harm
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary resilience comes from the Latin “resileins” and “resilire”. Derived from “re” meaning “back” and “salire” meaning “to jump...