Rory's Write Place

A Year in Reflection

Just me rambling about how my year of being 24 was. Mostly good moments except for the bad ones. I include a humble request if you would like to make my 25th birthday even better. Be sure to visit my helpful links page to support me.

Personal Update – Antipsychotic Change

My PCP suspects I may have developed sleep apnea at some point, and this has caused my psychiatrist to change up my antipsychotic, which acts somewhat as a sedative for me. What will happen next is a mystery…

Episode 47 – Different Mental Health Professionals

There are significant but subtle differences between these four mental health professionals: psychiatrist; psychiatric nurse practitioner; psychologist; and therapist. While they are closely related, they come with different qualifications, certifications, and treatments.

Episode 46 – Shades of Sorrow

Depression, either as a symptom or as the disorder itself, can manifest in different ways. Here, I talk a bit about my three main types I’ve felt–anger as an adolescent; flat depression and mood cycling depression as they alternate in my later years.

Personal Update – The End

Hopefully the last personal update on this latest mood cycling+depression episode I’ve had over the last month. Kind of a thought ramble, really. We discuss a couple aspects of BPD and how it factors into this, then of course how the depressive episode has.

Personal Update – Imposter Syndrome

A description of imposter syndrome and its place in my life as a chronically mentally ill person who has lost everything, repeatedly, to the illnesses.