Watching Buzzards Swirl: It has been my honor and privilege to work for fifteen years on an urban inner-city psychiatric unit that is currently being targeted for closure by a hospital system that is facing a budget crisis. There is a proposal on the table to merge our program with its suburban counterpart, taking away […]
No, I still don’t believe schizophrenia is an illness! Many would say I still demonstrate poor insight into my illness for the declaration. That’s okay with me. I received the diagnosis from a pony-tailed man wearing rodeo work boots with a decorative slab of leather along the base of his lace. He walked with a […]
“So, you have bipolar,” said the well-meaning psychiatrist, “So what’s the big deal?” I had been talking about the stigma associated with presuming that all mental health challenges were disorders. He interrupted me. But wait! This was the first time anyone ever suggested that I had bipolar! Was I supposed to give up my perspective […]