Tag: trauma
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Guest Post: Aliona Kuznetsova > Recovering from Bipolar Psychotic Episodes
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A Room of My Own
My friend Dyane Harwood’s recent post A Stigma of One’s Own got me thinking. Dyane takes issue with the non-profit foundation A Room of Her Own (AROHO) for describing Virginia Woolf’s suicide as “took her own life” and for not mentioning her mental illness. I support Dyane for challenging them to rework Woolf’s bio. At the same time, I wonder… Is…
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Why I Keep Away from Madness, Dyane Leshin-Harwod #MarchMadness
I love this post written by my dear friend Dyane Leshin-Harwood of Birth of a New Brain: Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder for STIGMAMA.com. She eloquently and powerfully explains how she takes care of herself, how she pays attention to what feeds and nurtures her, and how she protects herself. She is my role model in self-care, in setting limits, in being…
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Prevent and Treat Childhood Trauma #1000Speak for Compassion
[ted id=2194] Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where…
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Childhood Trauma of Parental Mental Illness #1000Speak for Compassion
At the beginning of this week, Terezin – a woman who had been horrifically abused by a mother diagnosed with manic depressive psychosis – read my poem Suicide Infanticide and was understandably enraged. My poem described a fleeting and deeply disturbing psychotic thought I had postpartum. Her comment deeply troubled me and made me question my adequacy as a mother.…
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NAMI Provider Education – Week Two
Yesterday I attended the second class of NAMI’s Provider Education. Here I summarize, paraphrase, and quote the handouts from the NAMI Provider Education Course Participant Manual 2013: THEORETICAL BASIS: Basic principles of secondary prevention/intervention in mental health care in community psychiatry as devised by Gerald Caplan, MD (1974) and Erich Lindemann, MD (1944). Community theory proposed protective interventions…