Personal Stories

Six months ago, I was just starting in a position called "Treatment Team Coordinator" at a secure residential treatment facility. In my home state,...

I am a survivor of severe psychiatric abuse. There was a year or so in the early 1980’s when I was in and out...

When I was young I believed the world spoke to me.  Lightning split across the sky to the pulse of my thoughts.  Rings around...

I am a simple woman, 47, single mother of two beautiful children, diagnosed bipolar 10 years ago, and I want more from the way...

I’d like you to get to know me as you read this.  I think I have an important personal story to tell.  Frankly, I...

This was my son’s answer when I was questioning him, trying desperately to find out what was going on in his mind. Why did...

When I read recovery stories, I am sometimes challenged by the prospect of thinking about my life in linear terms, "Here are the years...

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was just nineteen. I am forty-three now, and I have recovered – and I use the term...

I see it everywhere: People with mental illness need medication.  It sounds reasonable. Today, there are even political organizations that seek to make it easy to force a person to take it.

A psychiatrist since 1949, I was psychiatrically hospitalized on December 21, 1963 at New York City's Mt. Sinai Hospital.   I stayed for three months,...

I was sixteen and going on seventeen and I had never gone crazy before.  I think the most startling aspect of it is how...