Improving Mental Health

Can You Train Yourself to Be Happy and Lead to Greater Success in Your Life?

by DPK March 26, 2012Depression

I just read a great article by Shawn Achor on the CNN site called “Is happiness the secret of success?” . Achor cites studies and figures to make the case that it does, indeed, pay off to be more happy than not. For someone who suffers from depression like me this isn’t earth-shattering news, but [...]

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Involuntarily Committed: Days Three to Seven

by DPK August 22, 2010Featured

In retrospect it’s difficult to remember exactly what was going through my mind in the wee hours of the next morning when I continually called K on her cell as she drove home, alternately pleading with her and yelling at her to come back to my house. Needless to say it was psychotic mania. My [...]

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Day One: Involuntarily Committed

by DPK August 8, 2010Hospitalization

Snorting Adderall…I don’t recommend it. That’s what got me in trouble this time. Staying up for days at a time, not taking my risperidal to calm down at night. Self-medicating with weed and herbal incense and klonipin & even buying MORE Adderall then what I’m prescribed. Oh yeah, and the percosets & Xanax and tequila… [...]

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Are You Crazy? Join The Mental Health Social Network

by DPK April 26, 2010Depression

Now I don’t mean “crazy” in a derogatory way because I suffer from bipolar illness and I am also a mental health advocate. But I had to get your attention somehow There’s a rather new website out there called Mental Health Social that is free for anyone to join. I highly recommend it. I’ve been [...]

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Give Yourself TIME To Recover From A Depressive Episode

by DPK April 18, 2010Depression

Well, I haven’t posted on this blog or ANY of my blogs in over a month. Can you guess the reason? If you said I was depressed, unfortunately you were right. It was about six weeks of misery with little help from my psychiatrist. So how did I come out of the depression perhaps you’re [...]

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