Articles tagged with mentalillness
A reminder that good mental health is important...
I'm sure many of you have heard about the Germanwings incident by now, and the press is now reporting that the pilot had been dealing with mental illness. The tragedy has definitely highlighted the stigma of mental illness, and I'm hoping that this brings
Are We All Mad?
After reading Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, I thought about how others who do not understand us can see us as weird, odd, sick, or any other label to explain away something they do not understand. We see this in families, work relationships, frien
Book Review: Girl, Interrupted
Have you ever had a book that you cannot put down? I began to read Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen on Friday and I finished it in two days. Kaysen's memoir was written in 1993 and was a candid tale of two years of her life in a psychiatric hospital in
