By Guest on 24 December, 2010
Eliot Renard is a genderqueer, feminist, socialist Chicagoan who enjoys making math and science accessible and fun for students through various online tutoring programs. Ze also has a health blog, personal blog and tumblr, because compartmentalizing is fun. This is the second post of a short series; part one, “Rocky Beginnings,” can be read here. [...]
Posted in guest post | Tagged chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, depression, family, family dynamics, fibromyalgia, guest post, personal, personal stories, social attitudes
By Guest on 16 December, 2010
Eliot Renard is a genderqueer, feminist, socialist Chicagoan who enjoys making math and science accessible and fun for students through various online tutoring programs. Ze also has a health blog, personal blog and tumblr, because compartmentalizing is fun. I began experiencing the symptoms of what I now know to be depression, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue [...]
Posted in guest post | Tagged childhood illness, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain conditions, depression, family, family dynamics, fibromyalgia, guest post, mental health, personal, social attitudes
By Anna on 16 December, 2010
Talulah Mankiller at Life Under a Rock: Just the Facts, Ma’am (via Kiri) (post mentions domestic violence but doesn’t describe) Even when I was very sick and had no idea what was wrong, I always had two versions of reality in my head: what I logically knew was actually probably going on, and what I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged abuse, australia, crazy, deaf-blind, depression, kentish sign language, kiri brings the awesome, mental health condition, neglect, Sign Language, violence
By Annaham on 9 December, 2010
I have an ongoing peeve that relates to medication and social attitudes surrounding it: often, for some people on various sides of the political spectrum, trashing Big Pharma translates into trashing people who use prescription medications at all, for a variety of health conditions — especially for chronic conditions, both of the mental health and [...]
Posted in gender, marketing, media and pop culture, medical practice, normality | Tagged advertising, Big Bad Pharma, depression, drugs, drugs are bad mmm'kay, fibro, fibromyalgia, gender, media and pop culture, medicine, prescriptions, wtf
By Annaham on 9 November, 2010
John Keilman for the Los Angeles Times: Technology opens new horizons for disabled Yet for all of technology’s promised advances, some worry that the cost will keep helpful devices out of many people’s reach. Others are concerned that governments, schools and institutions might think that high-tech gadgetry has relieved them of their responsibility to serve [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged assistive technology, bipolar disorder, Deaf, depression, education, gender, global, health care, health policing, independence, mental health, mental illness, patriarchy, recommended reading, schizophrenia, sexism, social construction, structural vs. individual, technology
By Anna on 13 October, 2010
Mix up a few details, and Blanchard’s story is a pretty common one. Whenever I talk to people who are currently living with long- or short-term depression, or have lived with it in the past, they tell me the same story: Friends thought they were faking because they managed to get out and have a good time. They laughed at a joke once and everyone decided they were “over” their “funk”. They didn’t act like stereotypes of depressed people, so they must not actually be depressed.
Posted in mental health, shaming | Tagged bingo cards, depression, mental health, myth-busting, myths, stigma
By s.e. smith on 10 October, 2010
A recent Ask Amy column featured a letter from a college student with a common problem; parents who want to exert a high level of control. Here in the US, school’s been in session for a little over a month now, and the winter is coming on, and I suspect that the number of students [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence | Tagged Amy Dickinson, Ask Amy, depression, disabled students, education, family dynamics
By Annaham on 31 August, 2010
Pamela Paul for the New York Times: Can Preschoolers be Depressed? In the winter of 2009, when Kiran was 5, his parents were told that he had preschool depression, sometimes referred to as “early-onset depression.” He was entered into a research study at the Early Emotional Development Program at Washington University Medical School in St. [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged children with disabilities, depression, disabled parents, gender, media and pop culture, medical care, medicine, mental health concerns, parents with disabilities, representations, sex, sexuality
By Ouyang Dan on 1 July, 2010
Moderatrix Note: This is a post from my “Summer of Buffy” series (or “Season of Buffy” for my Southern Hemisphere friends, who want to be MONSTERS and have different seasons and ruin my pun, but you are my favourite people EVAH and I love you!), which I thought was appropriate for cross posting, due to [...]
Posted in intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health, television | Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, coping, death pisses Buffy off, depression, Joss Whedon, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, pop culture, television, When She Was Bad
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