Caregiver Profile: Andra H.
Who is a caregiver? Nearly 1/3 of Americans serve as family caregivers and millions more serve as paid professional caregivers. The Caregiver Space is sharing their stories. Meet Andra I’m 44 and engaged to the love of my life! Mom to one daughter. I love life...
Crazy in love
What is crazy? In practice, madness is defined functionally rather than with reference to some absolute cognitive distinction. You can be as unhappy as you like if you can still make rent. You can be convinced that every streetlight is an angel as long as you walk...
The Mental Health of Caregivers and Care Patients: Introducing Amy Atkins
Sometimes these interludes are the greatest gifts I can offer a family who’s struggling.
My Boyfriend Stuck With Me During One of the Toughest Years of My Life, Which Makes This Breakup Especially Terrible
How do you break up with someone who loved you and supported you at your worst? A young woman with a mental illness shares her experience falling in love, moving across the country, starting a new career, and ending her relationship with the man who supported her...
The Debt
What do we owe our tormentors? It’s a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of one or both parents. Despite this terrible beginning, many people make it...
Suicide is desperate. It is hostile. It is tragic. But mostly, it is a bloody mess.
I made many choices that night; some were smart, some stupid, some crazy. I believed, deep down, my father would indeed kill himself, sooner or later; I knew my mother was in danger [H]e knelt on the floor, put the barrel of a .22 rifle in his mouth, and squeezed the...Top Posts
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