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...
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...
Bipolar affective disorder is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed mental illnesses, as often symptoms can defy what is expected from the manic-depressive sequence. People with bipolar disorder, at the very barebones understanding of the disorder, have cycles of...
8.1% of people in the United States over the age of 20 have depression during any given 2-week period according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For many patients with depression, it is not a one-time occurrence. It is a...
