http://www.insanities.org/blog mental health blog Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:49:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was sitting here playing with my blog and rewriting the code and whatnot for who knows what reason. Its not like I have information to hand out, or things to download. Although, I could probably make up an excuse or two to use my new shiny red boxes. ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/09/my-blog-is-too-colorful/ Alert: If you have a personality disorder or mental illness of your own you may not want to read on. This an account of my relationship with a mentally disordered person and isn't very pretty.By far the abuse that affected me the most in my life came ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/09/wolves-among-sheep/ I might as well write about my father as long as I'm on a roll of reliving my childhood and triggering myself with unhappy memories.  I wish I could write about something positive and uplifting, but I might might have to wade through a lifetime of negativity before I can ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/08/wild-turkeys/ My brother had issues all his own.  I witnessed many an angry outburst.  He was kicked out numerous times after the age of sixteen, but he'd eventually be allowed back in to stay.  My brother dabbled with marijuana, alcohol, and eventually started smoking crack.  If my family left the house  ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/08/a-day-in-the-life/ The following posts contains memories of verbal and emotional abuse.  If you are triggered by reading about abuse, you might not want to continue on. The roots of my disorders most likely come from my childhood, which might explain why I rarely think about it.  My earliest memories seem to revolve ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/08/my-mothers-rage/ My heart dreams of being far from society.  I dream about being far away from stress, worries, responsibilities, bills, landlords, and neighbors.  I'd trade my last dime, my computer, and even my Playstation 3 to be far away from this rat race that everyone else participates in.  There is little ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/08/isolation/ I've always known I was different, but I never knew how or why until a year or so ago.  It's quite a tale how I got to that point and it would almost require writing a novel to explain it.  I met a girl, and fell for said girl, and ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/07/fun-with-labels/ The trauma of my last relationship landed me in a psychiatrist's office looking for answers to my ex-girlfriends bizarre behavior, but it also led me to answers about myself I wasn't exactly looking or asking for. He emphasized the word "major" and somewhere else in the sentence he said depression.  ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/07/black-dogs-and-thick-fogs/ I have reluctantly been sucked back into the the psychodrama of my ex-girlfriend's life. Several years ago I made the decision that I couldn't help her and I chose to remove myself from her life so that I could take better care of myself. Turning your back on ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/07/harms-way/ Folie à Deux means “a madness shared by two,” and Folie à plusieurs means “a madness of many.” It is more commonly known in psychological circles as shared psychotic disorder or induced delusional disorder. These disorders occur when a person has been exposed to the paranoid thoughts, delusional beliefs, or ... http://www.insanities.org/blog/2008/07/folie-a-deux/