One of the more bizarre elements of my bouts with illness has been the occurrence of hallucinations. Most commonly I have heard conversations that are supposedly taking place in another room, where perhaps there were no people or where the people in the next room were not talking at all.
I remember once, whilst in the [...]

When I was ill most recently (in 2007), I started writing a blog. I went a bit over the top and posted scanned images of my previous hospital records and commented on the notes written by various medical professionals that oversaw my treatment and recovery. I then had a panic and decided it was not [...]

As someone who has been given a few different options in terms of a suitable label for my ‘condition’, having seen a number of different psychiatrists over the years, it concerns me how inexact a science psychiatry is. Just as with anything in life and especially in today’s society where practically anything and everything is [...]