“I really will not rest until anyone who has schizophrenia, anywhere, worldwide, is not afraid to say the words ‘I have schizophrenia’.” – Ceclilia McGough In early 2014, Cecilia McGough was a Freshman at Penn State University when she began struggling with psychosis. Though her PSU career would include such achievements as helping discover a […]
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Think back to a time when you felt really great and really happy. If you have episodes of Depression, the answer might be a few months or years ago. If you have a condition called Dysthymia, the answer might sound more like “I’m not sure I’ve ever felt really happy”. For those with Dysthymia, “it’s […]
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Part of the difficulty that comes with facing psychosis is not knowing when life will feel “normal” again. You might wonder if you’ll always having moments where your reality shifts and if your voices will stay with you or fade over time. Psychology Today wondered the same thing this month, asking “Who Recovers from Psychosis? […]
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This summer has seen a resurgence for 80’s music sensation Kate Bush. It’s thanks in no small part to her song, “Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)” which features prominently in the Netflix show, Stranger Things. In the show’s fourth season, high school freshman Max is dealing with grief and post-traumatic stress from […]
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**Warning: this post contains spoilers for the Disney+ program, Marvel’s Moon Knight** In the Disney+ series Marvel’s Moon Knight, London museum worker Steven Grant seems to be having some serious sleep issues. He often wakes up in places he couldn’t possibly have traveled to in his sleep – like the Austrian Alps- and has blackouts […]
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“An inquiry has been commissioned after a man with paranoid schizophrenia who had lost touch with mental health services killed a stranger in a holiday town with a throwing knife.” This was a headline in 2019 from a newspaper in the United Kingdom. In the incident the man had stopped taking medication for paranoid schizophrenia […]
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If you’ve been paying even minor attention to the news or social media this month, chances are good you’ve come across the high-profile defamation case between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. While it’s hard to know exactly what went on between Depp and Heard during the course of their marriage, a clinical psychologist was […]
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It’s no secret that this blog is devoted to first episode psychosis- “first” typically meaning early in life. However, experiencing psychosis isn’t limited just to a specific age range. It’s also possible to experience what’s known as late-onset psychosis, which can occur between the ages of 40 and 60. In women, late-onset psychosis happens almost […]
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Students. Professionals. Trade laborers. People with a lot of money. People with no money. These are the type of people who use amphetamines, also commonly known as speed. In other words, they could be just about anyone. Whether it’s used to help someone lose weight, pull an all-nighter to finish a project, or keep up […]
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We’ve talked before on this blog about involuntary commitment and what it’s like to stay inside a residential mental health treatment center, but recently, a writer from the popular online magazine Slate detailed her personal stay at psychiatric unit. In an article titled “Last Fall, I Walked Into a Psych Ward and Asked to Be […]
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The goal is to facilitate early identification of those experiencing extreme states in order to decrease the duration for untreated symptoms and reduce disruption to the young person’s psychosocial development through a collaborative, recovery oriented intervention.