by Michael Varenbut | Sep 19, 2019 | Healthcare, Mental Health
Being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be overwhelming. Not many people really understand what it means at first or why it can be perhaps an untreatable condition of irregular moods, difficulty with interpersonal relationships, and identity...
by Michael Varenbut | Jun 27, 2019 | Healthcare
So often, the humanities are positioned on the opposite side of the spectrum as medicine. The two are thought to be entirely separate disciplines, with creativity aligning with humanities and arts, and rationality and structure aligning with medicine. This is far from...
by Michael Varenbut | Apr 25, 2019 | Healthcare, Mental Health
The DSM, also known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a text produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that offers criteria and classification for mental disorders. A considerable benefit of this text is that it also...
by Michael Varenbut | Feb 4, 2019 | Healthcare, Mental Health
PTSD, the acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a disorder that can develop in those who have experienced a traumatic event. Commonly, it is associated with veterans deployed in wars. However, it can affect any range of people, soldier or not, who have...
by Michael Varenbut | Jan 16, 2019 | Healthcare, Mental Health
There are many stigmas surrounding mental illness, especially disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. A huge factor contributing to this stigma is the fact that the general population is relatively uninformed about the details surrounding these...
