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Janet Coburn

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What Meds Am I On?

I see a lot of posts in the bipolar/mental health Facebook groups that I belong to asking what medications people take and advice on which…

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Bad Things I Learned in College

I went to a classy university — one so classy that they could (and did) boast about the vegetation that climbed their walls. There you…

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Depression and the Dickhead

“Depression isn’t real. You feel sad, you move on. You will always be depressed if your life is depressing. Change it.”

Mar 23

Down the Rabbit Hole

Almost five years ago, I wrote a post about how memories from my (and likely your) childhood were being repurposed for political statements…

Mar 23

Mar 23

Growth Mindset and Mental Illness

Let’s start with a little levity, a quote from Groucho Marx: “Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.” Putting the vending…

Mar 16

Mar 16

New Love Languages

Noted author Gary Chapman has written that there are five “Love Languages.”

Mar 16

Mar 16

My Two Diagnoses

For all my childhood, I assumed I had depression, though I didn’t know that it was a psychiatric diagnosis. I was always a moody child…

Mar 9

Mar 9

Paczki-Palooza

It’s Lent. So why are there three dozen paczki in my freezer?

Mar 9

Mar 9

Advances in Schizophrenia Treatment

Schizophrenia is one of the most problematic and least tractable of the Serious Mental Illnesses (SMI). Recently, though, there have been…

Mar 2

Mar 2

Dan’s Only Friend

The phone rang and Dan picked it up. He held it out to me. “It’s your friend,” he said.

Mar 2

Mar 2