Tag: Illness

Neurotypical individuals will never be able to fully grasp the idea of mental illness. They will never truly understand the nature of mental illness, or the way that it affects a person’s perception and understanding of the world. And that is because of two main issues which are directly relat...

Instead of rolling out of bed around 9 or 9:30 am to lay out my yoga mat and languidly select a work-out video and a podcast to listen to while I complete it, I’ve been bolting upright in bed to the sound of my alarm at 7am, and dashing to complete my mourning routine. I’ve been throwing...

He thought about how his classmates teased him relentlessly. As payback, he plans to subjugate them. With his assault weapon pressed against their head, he wants to force his enemies to get on their knees. Any slight movement, and they’ll die. His victims will cry about how they’re...

There is a recent story by The Associated Press, A list of mass killings in the United States since January, stating that “The 40-year-old man identified as a person of interest is a firearms instructor trained by the military and was recently committed to a mental health facility, a...

2-month-old female infant with massive global damage to brain cortex after cardiac arrest secondary to H. influenzae A meningitis. Brain injury is devastating with no chance for meaningful neurological recovery. That may be the most gut-wrenching case summary I’ve ever read. But for the ...

What are the symptoms of dysautonomia? General symptoms can include: Constant fatigue (despite enough sleep), dizziness and fainting, irregular heartbeat, breathing issues or involuntary breath-holding, excessive sweating, incontinence, circulatory problems, low blood pressure, sleep apnea, ex...

One rainy Wednesday evening in November, I had dinner in Mayfair, central London, with a successful filmmaker, whom I’ll call Arthur. I thought I had him pinned after the first course of a rather extensive vegetarian tasting menu: a mushroom tea served in a tiny ceramic mug. Arthur likely g...

He picked it up from someone in Peru where he traveled on the Amazon drinking Ayahuasca before it was cool. Or safe. Of course, Courtney didn’t care about safe. He passed me a pipe. Try this. Cool, I said again. I was too high to say much else. Nor did I care. I figured I would feign intere...