MQ Mental Health

APRIL 15, 2024

For me, I realised in my ongoing journey of mental health recovery, that the days I didn’t create were the days I felt disconnected and more likely to experience intrusive thoughts or unhealthy coping strategies. Creativity can be seen by some, perhaps in past decades, as frivolous.

Schizophrenia 105

Schizophrenia Mental Health Engagement Psychotherapy 105

Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. The clinician goes on to explain that depression is a brain disease, and that your biological wiring, in combination with sufficient life stress, has led you to become depressed. Would it speed your recovery, or slow it down?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatry Clinic Disorder 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I didn't want to attract attention to myself and assumed that a hospital emergency room had bigger problems than a depressed but cooperative patient. Schizophrenia? he asked me.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52