Yeah, I dropped off the deep end and disappeared. It happens when you get psychotic depression. And then get put on the wrong antidepressant. And then it takes your body two months to recover from being on the wrong antidepressant. And then your doctor decides that SSRI’s are maybe not such a good idea in [...]
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Yeah. Turns out, it can happen. And it happened to me. It’s not as dramatic as a manic episode or a schizophrenic break. When psychosis happens with depressive disorders, as with anxiety or OCD, the subject (that would be me) is aware that what’s happening isn’t real. In my case, I had paranoid delusions about my [...] Well, in another installment of “I wish they’d told me that a long time ago”, it turns out that SSRI’s can contribute to hyponatremia, a potentially dangerous condition in which your body doesn’t have enough sodium to regulate the water in your cells. It is believed that SSRI’s might contribute to at least mild hyponatremia in [...] The single suckiest thing about all my LD’s has been its impact on my work life. I’ve spent my entire working life underemployed at retail gigs and poorly-paid part-time teaching jobs. I have never had a job that pays decent money, let alone one that uses my skills or intelligence. My problem has been that my [...] I’ve blogged before about the seasonal aspects of my ADD. Unsurprisingly, things have been even worse since the return to Standard Time (ptui!) and the loss of another hour of light in the afternoon. I’ve been more tried, more hungry, more spacey … and paradoxically, less able to get to sleep at a reasonable hour. “Attention” [...] Rickie Sugars is glad the study proves a link between learning disabilities and poor mental health. I have no idea when this story ran in the Vancouver Sun, but it’s worth a look. The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada has released a study on the long-term effects of undiagnosed learning disabilities. The results? Lasting psychological harm. I [...] |
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