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Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her when she should laugh, the blue ones when she should be silent and keep away from other people; the green balls told her that she should start multiplying by three. Every few days a silver ball would make its way through the pins of the machine. At this point her head turned and she stared at me; I assumed she was checking to see if I was still listening. I was, of course. How could one not? The whole thing was bizarre but riveting. I asked her, What does the silver ball mean? She looked at me intently, and then everything went dead in her eyes. She stared off into space, caught up in some internal world. I never found out what the silver ball meant.
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bipolar-disorder
depression
mania
manic
manic-depression
mental-disorder
mental-illness
psychology
psychopathology
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Kay Redfield Jamison |
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Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
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identity
memory
mental-disorder
mental-illness
psychiatry
psychology
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American Psychiatric Association |
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cd84a24
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Schizo. It didn't matter how many times Dr. Gill compared it to a disease or physical disability, it wasn't the same thing. It just wasn't. I had schizophrenia. If I saw two guys on the sidewalk, one in a wheelchair and one talking talking to himself, which would I rush to open a door for, and which would I cross the road to avoid?
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mental-disorder
mental-illness
mental-illness-discrimination
mental-illness-stigma
schizophrenia
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Kelley Armstrong |
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I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.
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label
labeling
mental-disorder
mental-disorders
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Jon Ronson |
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69fc964
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You get people who think you have a mental disorder, people calling you frigid, but I don't care. If they're that desperate, clearly THEY have a problem.
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asexuality
desperate
frigid
love
mental-disorder
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Rebecca McNutt |
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c271223
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She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.
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emotional-distance
ignoring-people
isolation
mental-disorder
mental-illness
withdrawn
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Carol Lee |