Tag: disorder
Speak Easy: Life Is Bipolar!
UNITED STATES—Seems to me there are TOO MANY INTELLECTUALS wasting their time at DEAD END labs across America, studying individual mental illnesses as if...
Mental Health Awareness Month!
UNITED STATES—May is Mental Health Awareness Month and instead of the usual DOOM and GLOOM statistics let's go back to the basics because it...
Evolution Of: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
UNITED STATES—May is Ehlers-Danlos Awareness Month! Not aware of it? I WASN'T EITHER!
The word syndrome is defined by Merriam Wester as "a group of...
Fight, Flight, Freeze=Fibromyalgia?
UNITED STATES—Over 101 years ago FIGHT OR FLIGHT was termed by Wisconsinite Walter Cannon, describing animals that were faced with threat.
Do I run and...
Speak Easy: My PTSD Habits
UNITED STATES—PTSD is the 4th most diagnosed psychiatric disorder in America. Last week I wrote about the evolution of the term PTSD and now...
Speak Easy: Sexual Abuse
UNITED STATES—History is littered with drawings, photos and historical accounts of it and today I am going to talk about something NOBODY wants to...
Evolution Of: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
UNITED STATES—Just as physical abuse can KILL the body, too much mental trauma can KILL the mind, rendering an individual as useless as a...