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Sunday, August 17th, 2008B. asks: How does one go about helping someone recognize that they need help?My brother had a brain tumor removed in March. He has made an astounding physical recovery, but has
now somehow slipped into a dark well of anger, possibly depression - who knows? He’s not talking about what’s going on in his head.Granted, some [...]
Forgetting my madeleine
Monday, July 14th, 2008After you’ve been taking, and alternating among, the different psychoactive drugs for a while, you forget which side effects go with which drugs– and they take you by surprise all over again, when you resume a prior course, abandoned for whatever side effect became intolerable for a time. I’ve been from lamictal to lamictal [...]
Inpatient vs. outpatient care
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Tay asks: “I was wondering if (you) had any insight on inpatient vs. outpatient care specifically with someone suffering from dissociative disorders. what are the pros and cons and (do you) know of any inpatient places that deal with these disorders.”
Mr. C. says, Dissociative disorders often take a lengthy time to heal, making it difficult or impossible to get [...]
Distraction
Monday, June 30th, 2008I go through phases. Distractions. Obsessions. It occurs when I am depressed, and don’t want to face work, bills, life. Sometimes it’s my same favorite books, reread over and over, every night, sometimes for months. For a while, it was crossword puzzles. Right now, it’s a few different TV series online, which is crazy, since [...]
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