Articles from Cat Davis | Selfgrowth.com
- My First Psychiatric Institution: Meet the Crazies
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Submitted on Jun 23, 2017 from Cat DavisDecember 2016 This institution looks nothing like the movies. It’s set up like a little home, comfy cozy, except everything is confined to one huge room, so they can watch us. There’s a receptionist desk, where the lady who checked me in now sits. She switches between scrolling on her ...
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( 1 vote) - Mental Illness and Mental Institutions: When You Have No More Options
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Submitted on Jun 16, 2017 from Cat DavisMy mom anxiously sits beside me on one of the faded blue couches. Today is the first day of final exams, I remember. But here I am, sitting and crying uncontrollably in the waiting room of my school’s counseling services. I am not the normal college student anymore. I am going ...
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- Misdiagnosed With Depression: Manic Attack
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Submitted on Jun 16, 2017 from Cat DavisDecember 2016 Screaming. Excruciatingly desperate. Dangerously loud. Pain expressed with every sound; helplessness released with every breath. I sit up in my bed, surrounded by darkness. The sun starts peeking between the curtains of the bedroom. I look around, trying to figure out where ...
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- Misdiagnosed With Depression: Panic Attacks Part 2
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Submitted on Jun 16, 2017 from Cat DavisI am one month into my antidepressants when my psychiatrist tells me she has not seen any improvement in my “condition.” She doubles my dose of Prozac to 40mg, which, by the way, induces a hell of a lot of serotonin into one little tiny depressed body. I glare at her. I’m pissed that I’m not ...
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- Misdiagnosed With Depression: Panic Attacks
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Submitted on Jun 16, 2017 from Cat DavisI do not know what is happening to me. I have never felt this out of control before. I guess I have been broken, and now there’s nothing else but insanity pouring of me. Everyday I wake up with arms and legs made of bricks, and a bowling ball for a head. I skip one, two, all of my classes, but I ...
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- Misdiagnosed With Depression: A Circuitous Journey to Bipolar
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Submitted on Jun 16, 2017 from Cat DavisToday marks my first ever meeting with a psychiatrist. A good ole crazy people doctor for good ole crazy me. The psychiatrist turns out to be a sweet, bubbly, round-faced young woman who looks more like a favorite elementary school teacher than a psychiatrist, but in a good way. I like her ...
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- High Risk
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Submitted on Jun 16, 2017 from Cat DavisMy school’s counseling service is pushed to the back and most depressing corner of the student health center. I find myself there, quite unamused by the set up. I decide that after this first, mandatory meeting, I will never come back. Therapy is overrated; even if I am labeled completely ...
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