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The Dying Woman
For those unaware of my old matthewmatical blogspot blog, for the last eighteen months I’ve been undergoing psychoanalysis. This follows a severe mental breakdown in November 2011. I’ve had a complex...
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A Challenge To Psychiatry
Within the next few weeks, after two decades without an update, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will released in it’s fifth version (DSM V). Here in the UK, we use a system of...
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Crossing The Chasm
For the first time in my adult life I’ve reached a stage of total sobriety and abstinence from all substances bar coffee. I belong to that heavily researched one in ten – ten percent of the population...
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Personality Disorders: A Bludgeon In Mental Health
Within the orbits of Mental Illness there can be no doubt that certain diagnoses not only provoke stigma and misunderstanding within the general population, but within the field of Mental Health...
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The Public Face Of The Act That Dare Not Speak It’s Name.
The news yesterday revealed that the writer, actor and television presenter, Stephen Fry, had attempted suicide last year – a bid that was thwarted when found, semi-conscious, by being found and...
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Mental Illness and The Art of Living.
In 2005 as I sat on a train on my way to Leeds to see a friend, I began to feel very strange. By the time the train arrived at it's destination, I have somewhat broken memories of myself staggering...
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The BBC Highlight Mental Illness But Push The Faltering World of Psychiatry...
BBC have launched a series of programmes called “It’s A Mad World”, and aired it’s first programme, “Don’t Call Me Crazy”, which was sensitively produced and dealt with a young woman with a serious...
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My Cab Company Are Angels of Mercy.
I moved from my humble abode in Yorkshire to be with my wonderful partner in Newcastle in 2009. This wasn't so much a decision as an only choice. My partner had looked for work in my area and could...
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Psychiatric Services – Pushing The Pauper Into Penury.
It's a tired and well-worn cliché that the Cinderella Service of the NHS is Mental Health Services. For a start there is nothing glamorous about a psychiatric ward, and I've seen enough of them to...
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Antipsychotics: Take With One Hand, Give With Another.
After fifteen years of being under the care of a psychiatrist who needed to see a psychiatrist, my second, and current psychiatrist thought it was time for “out with the old and in with the new.” I've...
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I Respect Antipsychotics – The Police & Hospitals Often Don’t
I don't claim to be anything other than averagely intelligent, but when I commenced on Quetiapine I did my homework as best as I could, taking into account my mental state, and some of it didn't make...
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A New Psychiatrist Is Something To Be Feared.
I didn't sleep properly for three nights. The night before my outpatient appointment, I slept for an hour. Why? My regular psychiatrist is on maternity leave for a year. Because the staff at my Mental...
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Let’s Find Work For Those With Mental Illness First.
The Guardian has written an insightful article on the difficulties those with mental illness can be exposed to in the workplace – you can read it Here. I'll touch on some of the points made later, but...
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What We Owe To Our Most Vulnerable Citizens.
The Work Capability Assessment has been ruled as unfair and “significantly disadvantages” those with mental illness by a group of judges following a tribunal. Whilst I have written about an aspect of...
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Mental Illness: When Friends Don’t Give A Shit.
Having mental illness is an oddity, because one spends half of their life apologising for having it in the first place. Well, I should say one used to spend half of one's life apologising for it,...
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Taking Responsibility.
In a recent blog post, I wrote about how, over time, I’ve come to understand how my own mental illness, and wellness, informs not just myself but those around me. Ten years ago, I wouldn’t have been...
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