A Patient Confesses: This is What It’s Really Like to Have Schizophrenia By Anonymous

"ome days, I feel that every thought in my head is broadcast to the people around me, so I have to be extra careful about what I think because I can’t let the people sitting nearby in the coffee shop find out my secrets. On other days, I pick up extra information about people and situations. I might be able to hear voices that explain what the lady behind me in line at the grocery store is really thinking about me. Most times, this extra perception just buzzes quietly in the back of my brain as I go through my day. Intense episodes happen infrequently.

Istarted having symptoms when I was 19. Since then, I’ve had to teach myself to always be the last person to react to things and to mistrust my own judgment and perceptions. Unique situations have to be run through an “Is this real?” test. I have to constantly live with the fear that the universe that I experience may not be the same as the universe that actually exists.

For example, a while ago, I was in a large meeting at work, and a bunch of lightning bugs began to fly around the room. Check 1: Is this possible? Answer: implausible but not impossible. Check 2: Is anyone else in the room reacting or commenting on the situation? Answer: No? Then I’ll assume it’s not real until I have evidence to the contrary"

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Check out and play Neverending Nightmares

"Neverending Nightmares is a video game developed by Infinitap Games. It is a horror game drawing inspiration from the lead designer Matt Gilgenbach's personal struggles with obsessive–compulsive disorder and depression; in an interview, he stated that he was "trying to create that feeling [of bleakness and hopelessness] in Neverending Nightmares"

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Neverending Nightmares is a psychological horror game inspired by the developer's actual battle with mental illness. In the game, you take on the role of Thomas who awakens from a terrible nightmare only to find that he is still dreaming. As he descends deeper through the layers of hellish dreamscapes, he must hide from horrifying apparitions and outrun his inner demons. He must discover which of the horrors he encounters are a manifestation of his own psychological state and figure out what reality will be when he finally wakes up.

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2. Terrifying nightmare worlds inspired by real life struggles with OCD and depression. 
3. Black and white artwork creates a distinctive moody and dark atmosphere. 
4. Branching narrative features 3 completely different endings. 
5. A dynamic lighting system gives the ever present darkness a character of its own. 
6. IGF nominated composer Skyler McGlothlin delivers a haunting and oppressive dark ambient score.

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• Kickstarter
• YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE | Neverending Nightmares - Part 1 played and uploaded by Markiplier 
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When Food becomes your Enemy

"Anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating have become serious problems, with many families having to cope with the trauma of a son or daughter suffering from an eating disorder. This book explains: how anorexia, bulimia or compulsive overeating can take over your life; why any eating problem is really only a symptom of deeper unease within the person. Case histories illustrate the painful process from the inital stages to recovery, with sufferers illuminating in an honest way what is really going on when food becomes your enemy"


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Hermann Rorschach

Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. (Wikipedia)

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Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921)

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Too ugly for love (BBC Documentary

Top 10 Mental Illnesses And Their Myths

"We’ve had several fascinating lists about bizarre mental disorders on this site, but no lists have been posted of mental illness myths. Mental illnesses, disorders and differences tend to be very misunderstood by the general public. This is a list of mental illnesses and a widely believed myth or two about each one. I’m sure there are other mental disorders with myths so widespread that I believe in them, too. Of course, you can tell me about those in the comments."

Includes:
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Multiple Personality Disorder
Dyslexia
Schizophrenia
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Selective Mutism
Self-Harm/Self-Injury
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
All Mental Disorders

INSANITY DEFINED…Doing the Same Old Things & Expecting Different Results

"Doing the Same Old Things & Expecting Different Results

            “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

            So what are you going to change about next year, and why wait clear ‘till then?

            You can’t make significant changes just working harder. You’ve got to work smarter. Maybe just different. But you can’t keep doing the same things and expect to get different results. That is, by definition, INSANE!"

INSANITY DEFINED…Doing the Same Old Things & Expecting Different Results

National Suicide Prevention Week

Today, September 10th, is National Suicide Prevention Day.
For this week, the people at  To Write Love On Her Arms is writing a special blog post each day.

9/08  Introducing: National Suicide Prevention Week
9/09  Challenging Stigma
9/10  World Suicide Prevention Day
9/11  Remembering Those We've Lost
9/12  Your Story Is Important
9/13  Learning Together
9/14  Looking Forward

How to comfort a friend

4 Myths about Comforting Friends

NAMI - Depression: Help for young people

Nami Depression Help for Young People

If You're Barely Hanging On

If Your Barely Hanging On

*** I'm just posting this here because I found it to be an interesting article. Try to deal with depression with herbs, and counseling before popping pills. <3 There are many alternative forms of therapy and medications that work better than pharmaceutical medications.

NAMI - About BPD

NAMI - About Borderline Personality Disorder

Speaking of Women's Health - Memory

Speaking of Women's Health - Memory

Nami - Getting Help for Depression

Nami - Getting Help for Depression

NAMI - Depression: Hope & Help

Nami Depression Hope and Help

Suicide - cry for help

Suicide Cry for Help

"Self Injury Scars As An Adult"

**May be a trigger for people who self harm....
Educational for both people self harm, and people who do not.


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Quiet Borderline Personality Disorder

"Much is written about the more classic presentation of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The more classic presentation more often than not involves outward raging, projections and "acting out". But there is also another variation. Known as the Quiet Borderline"

Chemistry of life

Alice In Wonderland Syndrome

A disorienting neurological condition that affects human perception. Sufferers may experience micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other sensory modalities. A temporary condition, it is often associated with migraines, brain tumors, and the use of psychoactive drugs. It can also present as the initial sign of the Epstein-Barr Virus ( mononucleosis)

Signs and symptoms

For the AIWS sufferer, the eye components are entirely physically normal. The AIWS involves a change in perception as opposed to a malfunction of the eyes themselves. The hallmark sign of AIWS is a migraine, and AIWS may in part be caused by the migraine. AIWS affects the sufferer's sense of vision, sensation, touch, and hearing, as well as one's own body image.

A prominent and often disturbing symptom is that of altered body image: the sufferer may find that he or she is confused as to the size and shape of parts of (or all of) his/her body. Alice in Wonderland syndrome involves perceptual distortions of the size or shape of objects. Other possible causes and/or signs of association with the syndrome are migraines, use of hallucinogenic drugs, and infectious mononucleosis. 

Also, patients with certain neurological diseases have experienced similar visual hallucinations.  These hallucinations are called "Lilliputian," which means that objects appear either smaller or larger than they actually are.

Patients may either experience micropsia or macropsia. Micropsia is an abnormal condition of sight where the person sees objects smaller than they are when hallucinating. Macropsia is a condition where the individual sees everything larger than it actually is.

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Site about it

Aiws.info

When the world looks like a real-life Wonderland

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Alice in Wonderland syndrome

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Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia Book

Available on iherb.com a great resource to check out if you want to know more about stress, anxiety or insomnia.

Natural Factors, Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia, by Michael Murray