The first part in my first topic request on my experiences with schizophrenia, mostly about being diagnosed. I talk about hallucinations and initial symptoms, which could be common warning signs in children and adolescents.
Category Archives: diagnosis
Episode 29 – Diagnosis by the DSM
A psychiatrist uses the DSM to evaluate and diagnose suspected mental illnesses based on different characteristics of the symptoms experienced. Here I will go into what these characteristics are and, vaguely, how they will be used to diagnose, as well as possible treatments.
Guest Interview 1 (Part 2)
This is the second part of my guest interview with @keiralanebooks from Twitter. We discuss some medications and how they have affected her abilities to function, as well as how she is doing now.
Guest Interview 1 (Part 1)
An interview with our first guest speaker on The Write Place, Keira Lane. These guest interviews feature an inside look at other people’s experiences with mental illness. This first one is with someone I met on Twitter (@keiralanebooks) and largely focuses on personal experiences with General Anxiety Disorder and ADHD. This will be split into two parts.
Episode 1 – Introduction to My Diagnoses
I go through the history of my own diagnoses and refine the goals of this blog as a whole.