Posts Tagged ‘Mental Illness’

Just Love ‘Em.

Your much-loved, much-lauded, beautiful son finally marries the love of his life, but despite your pride and delight, you can’t brag on him or his new partner to any of your friends at church. Because the love of his life is actually a man. What do you do? You hide. Your daughter moves out into her...

December 27th, 2012 | Social Justice | Read More

Evil, Mental Illness, and the Responsibility of the Free

Almost two years ago, I fell into a job as a mental health support worker. My role entailed supporting people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses to live in the general community, people who would have been, and actually were, institutionalised just a few years ago. A restructure of mental...

December 17th, 2012 | Featured | Read More

Just Gotta Love ‘Em

This piece was first featured on www.susiefinkbeiner.com Tonight I visited a friend in a psychiatric ward. Nothing dramatic happened. No violence or smelly rooms or scary people. Very little “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” stuff going on there. The halls were clean and brightly lit. The...

July 9th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Politics vs. Psychosis

Vitriolic political discourse did not incite Jared Lee Loughner to shoot twelve people in Tucson, Arizona. I’ve tried to understand how someone could reach such fallacious conclusions beyond wanting to increase ratings and reader traffic. I’ve tried to get beyond the fact that I’m a psychologist...

January 14th, 2011 | Featured, Spirit in the Material World | Read More