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The Song of Psychiatry: The Impact of Language
As a young woman, I believed the story I was told and internalized the language of the psychiatric system. The story it told, the…
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What We Have Always Known but Psychiatry Forgot
When I came off my last medication, my psychiatrist said to me, “You will get sick again.” Psychiatry has always been sure of one…
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Surviving the Bipolar Label
I am a woman who fully identified with the label bipolar for almost 20 years and, according to psychiatry, rightfully earned it with four…