Ignorance is wonderful isn’t it?
I mean, its really nice to get up in the morning, be depressed and ratty and get a freind demanding to know why I’m taking my ‘PMT’ out on them. I remember that a couple of years ago, I wrote an article that explained, in fairly non-threatening language, what it [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Op-eds on April 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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There are two incredibly powerful words in any language – and no matter what language you encounter, there’s bound to be a way to say it (though, maybe not in two words ;)).
More powerful than I want, I [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds, free reprint on January 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
How are you handling your resolutions this year?If like the majority of the population (of those that actually make resolutions), you find yourself failing in your pledges, for various reasons (good and bad) and you want to try something new, or want to actually manage to make good on your promises, there’s several things you [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness on December 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve had a couple of comments about a post a couple of months back, about the fact that it *seems* I’m saying bipolar disorder is comparitable to PMT. I had another editor friend go back and read it, and she’s told me that’s not how it reads, and that the person that emailed me [...]
Filed under: Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds, carer on October 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m going back to univeristy this Autumn. I’m going back to study Creative writing and Criminology (which has lots of Psych and sociology mixed in!). I’m so excited, but it means I may be a little more scarce than usual. I will, of course, try to do as muc as I can, and if you’d [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Resources, and more on August 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
(authors note – we’ve spent the last several days retrieving and reposting some of the content we used to have on our various site incarnations and I thought this was worth running now, instead of back in the archives)
Someone said that she was about to ask me a dumb question this month and then proceeded [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Op-eds, Resources on July 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There are three simple things you can do to support your mental health and wellness, no matter what diagnosis you have.
The first is to STOP.
Stop running in circles - stop torturing yourself, and others and stop telling yourself that you can ignore it and ‘it’ will go away.
The second is to accept.
Denial in all forms [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds, free reprint on July 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
“Mental health isn’t contagious.
It can be genetic.
Mental health isn’t a joke
Though we do sometimes laugh about it.”
D Kai Wilson, talk at a mental health group in 2005
One of the biggest things I’ve found out about mental health in the last nine years is that there are no concrete answers.
Its kinda hard to look back on [...]
Filed under: Information, Mental wellness on January 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
A recent study conducted under clinical criteria highlighted something terrifying for those of us who live with, love someone with, or care for people in our community with bipolar disorder.
(extract)
Relapse and impairment in bipolar disorder
MJ Gitlin, J Swendsen, TL Heller and C Hammen
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024- 6968, USA.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds on January 9th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
While a blog is great for all of the mutable, shifting information we store on the site, our OP-eds and more, I’m building reference and resource sections behind the blog so that we can use them, partially as reference for things we’re referring to, and partially to offer yet more information on bipolar disorders and [...]
Filed under: Information on October 23rd, 2006 | No Comments »
