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Tera Hawes first reached out for help with her mental health around 2011, when she was suffering from what she now knows as a hypomanic episode. “There [were] lots of areas where my life was kind of spiralling,” she said. The 37-year-old from Vancouver was overspending, using substances and had …

When someone you care about, or even someone you don’t care about, tells you they’re having thoughts of taking their life, it can make you instantly feel like freaking out. What the actual heck are you supposed to say to that? Their first instinct may be to immediately grab the person and …

Humans are relatively adaptable beings which is why we are thriving and not dying out like other species. Horrendous disasters such as the Philippines typhoon, the Boxing Day Tsunami, the nuclear disaster in Japan, the major wars of our time, and horrific famines see great suffering, but these events also …

1. NOTHING. Going to bed on an argument isn’t our style. Whilst you’ve casually dismissed it as a minor disagreement and all but forgotten about it, we’re worrying that you hate us and will never speak to us again. So please, stay awake long enough to text us back and …

Fellow Mama, I see you lying there in bed, trying to will yourself to get up. I know some part of you might wish you hadn’t woken up this morning – that you could fade away into nothingness because it seems a hell of a lot better than dealing with …

I am a very sensitive person — it’s kind of a main symptom of having borderline personality disorder (BPD). It’s been said that having BPD is really being an “empath” and not knowing how to control your abilities. Everything I’ve read about empaths leads me to believe this could be …

The Food and Drug Administration has just issued what’s called a “Medwatch Alert” warning that Epidural steroid injections or “ESIs” for back and neck pain can be extremely dangerous. The alert says: “Injection of corticosteroids into the epidural space of the spine may result in rare but serious adverse events, including loss …

Unless my geriatric cat finds it necessary to wake me earlier, my alarm goes off at 5 a.m. I usually jolt out of bed to thwart the noise and then proceed in slow motion to the bathroom to take my meds. With the light on, I examine my face, poking …

There is a question that comes up frequently when the discussion turns to how your adult life is is shaped by the experiences of a childhood in which your emotional needs weren’t met. This question is deceptively simple and complex at once: “How do you acquire a sense of belonging and inclusion …

Neurontin and its newer more potent version, Lyrica, are widely used for off-label indications that are an outright flagrant danger to the public. These blockbuster drugs were approved for use even though the FDA had no idea what they actually did in the brain. A shocking new study shows that …

Everyone assumes that if you have suicidal thoughts that means you want to die. From an outside perspective, suicidal thoughts are rarely looked into deeper than the surface level. Either you have suicidal thoughts and you want to die, or you don’t have suicidal thoughts and you want to live. What most …

For many survivors of childhood abuse, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may re-occur, or never arise, until they become a parent. A significant number of parenting survivors do not recognize the increased depression, anxiety or onset of flashbacks as symptoms of PTSD, weaving in and out their journey to …