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I'm an artist, and I'm just now realizing something about my work. Depending on my mood, I either do portraits or cartoons. But I've noticed one constant. When I draw faces, there are three possibilities. Either they are smiling (happy), frowning/grimacing (angry), or there's no expression at all. I'm just now realizing that this is because I simply have great difficulty connecting to anything in between joy and anger. I know that many artists, when ...

The vast majority of human beings that are in pain in the mental health industry are nothing more than a pay check as far as the mental health bureaucracy is concerned. What do I mean, let me be perfectly clear, the mental health industry is nothing more than a big -Ponzi Scheme-? If you saw and heard what I did in years of observations across whole areas of the mental health industry and only saw ...

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I'm not really sure what I should and was looking for advice. I recently split up with my partner of 15 years and we are now about to go through a divorce. Sometimes he can get angry and start yelling at me saying that everything that i put him through was unfair. we split up cause i started remembering and he didnt know what to do with it. sometimes he is nice and kind ...

- every time I sit in a lecture at uni I seem to think they are referring to me
- I watched this episode in law and order and they showed this murderer with severe mental illness and I interpreted that again in reference to me (more specifically I took it to mean that I am a fake because of my less server mental illness - i've been diagnosed with depression and social anxiety)
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Hi - I have been up all night - just found this sight, hope it can help me get out of my head:) I am having problems right now with the diagnosis. I seem to fit all the criteria, but I never really told my shrink everything so they thought I was bi-polar two. When I told them I thought I might be borderline they acted so shocked told me I was reading to much. ...

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A burst of research into the genetics of autism has given scientists insight into the basis for the disorder. Now, some companies aim to capitalize on these findings by developing DNA screens that might one day provide a diagnosis at birth. Hannah Waters examines the genetic tests and explores what parents—and their autistic children—have to gain.

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v17/n11/full/nm1111-1336.html

Once again i am at my wits end.
My 11yr old Son has started Urinating on one of his siblings belongings. Under Bed, in wardrobe , on toys etc. He had this problem 5 yrs ago and after suffering for 2 yrs we sent him to his fathers house ( at his request ) to live. After 2yrs of being there, he insisted on coming home again, and we all had desperatley hoped it was ...

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So I had this meeting at school for Honors Psychology and we talked about Grad school and it was was probably one of the most exciting/horrible things because you need like a 3.7 GPA to apply for graduate school and the cohort average is like 3.9 or higher (how the F! do you do that). So I was all excited and I started planning my thesis (I'm in 3rd year ...

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