Do you ever feel that your opinion is not recognized or acknowledged by those who do research in psychiatry, those who are looking for better treatments for you?  That your experiences in living with a mental illness are not considered important by them?  Perhaps you have symptoms or side effects of medications that you want to let them know about and you don’t know how to do it.  Well, I can see how you could[…]

If you asked any one of us, we would say that top on our list of what we want is to feel better.  But what is “better”?  To most it means that the symptoms of depression have gone away.  However, just the absence of symptoms is not enough to feel well.  Being well is not only freedom from the episodes of a mood disorder or depression symptoms.  It’s an ongoing process that includes participating in[…]