~ Kristin's Quantum Catalyzers ~

 

It’s difficult to believe things will get better when this struggle has been consistently worsening over the past decade. Ten years is a...

In The Beginning The first time I ever saw a doctor to receive psychiatric medications was at the end of 2012 after my fiancé & I broke...

I love this question because of the ignorance it proclaims: “Why dwell on yourself so much?? That isn’t healthy.” For years, I received...

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An Aging Trauma Four years. So much happens in four years, yet some things never change. Like the intensity of some memories. Like the...

creating your own identity Who am I? This question plagued me intensely throughout high school, & the journey to answering that question...

timid of the normal world The past seven & a half years have been a very interesting journey through which I’ve experienced intensely low...

breaking through my own ignorance I was never a fan of marijuana. During my experiences with it in high school & early college years, I...

Meeting PTSD Criteria Sporadic glimpses of my past flash before my eyes. Momentarily, I become dissociated with reality. Stress spikes;...

Borderline Personality Disorder The following text is lifted from an article reviewed by Ken Duckworth, M.D., and Jacob L. Freedman,...

Drastic Moods Shifts: Life in a Bipolar Mind These journals reveal my spiraling mood leading up to my three month long psychotic...

Inaccessible Normalcy & Unable to Root Self in Reality I’ve been looking for these answers for seven long years, & finally I was...

Treatment for Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder Being diagnosed is not a death sentence; rather, it is the first step in treating the illness....

Parenting a Child with Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder There is a huge difference between typical teenage behavior & behavior that is...

Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder A diagnosis might be frightening at first, but the sooner the problem is identified, the faster & more...