Practice of Madness: Upcoming Book Interview
Dearest readers, I have some exciting news from the book-writing world. I’ve decided on a subtitle for Inkling, and later this week, a friend and fellow psych survivor will be...
a rant before going into interzone, 2005
I must have written this early in the morning of the day that I disappeared for several before New Year’s, finding myself in a bathtub at my dad’s house, trying...
Titicut Follies: Full Length Documentary
The famed, banned documentary, captures everyday life in a mental institution in 1967, and showed the world the violence and abusive treatment that inmates were subject to for the first...
Bipolar Expeditions
I am deep into my coursework, but can’t help but take a minute to quote a few lines from the book I am reading for my most important (read: favourite)...
That’s nuts.
This is intended to be read after reading Alaryyk’s post below. How anyone could fathom that pointing rifles at someone’s head with K9 units’ foaming mouths looming behind them could...
(Hilarious) Vintage Effexor XR Ad
One benefit of the fact that magazines in doctors’ offices are usually at least 5 years old is you get to look at old ads! When I found this Effexor...
Parents *love* to film their “bipolar children” and post the videos on youtube!
Here are some more videos of children afflicted with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder” found on youtube. Kids being kids, or kids with a psychiatric illness requiring strong medication? You decide. You...
Why I won’t erase my scars.
On December 29th, 2006, after disappearing from my home for three days after a bout of depression (the one I naively believed would be my last ), I came to...
Trying to figure out what went wrong in Peru…
In honour of the Olympic hockey match between Canada and the USA that I’m sure is on every flatscreen television in both of those countries (including mine…I know, I didn’t...
“Letters of Complaint: The Art of Getting What You Deserve as a Human Being” – Letter #4
Perhaps my all-time favourite, written to the director of health services at my University’s “health clinic”… Dear _______ ______, Subject: Formal Complaint (re: Dr. Basson) and Appeal of Fine I...
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