The Discomfort of the Mirror: Silver Linings Playbook, Bipolar, and Me

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Ryan W. Bradley squirms through a film about a man like he was, not long ago: undiagnosed, violent, and about to hit bottom.

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On Guns, Mental Illness and Addictions (Bulling Through)

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Tim Lineaweaver gives an unflinching look at guns, PTSD, and addictions and one man’s struggles with the same.

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Why Can’t My Ex-Husband Talk About Our Son’s Psychiatric Disorder?

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Part of loving a person with a psychiatric disorder, writes Pauline Gaines, is acknowledging that the disorder is real.

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The Guy Having a Panic Attack

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Suffering from panic attacks since college has been bad enough. Even more difficult is the thought that my kids will inherit them.

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Laugh at the Punch

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After four years sober, cracks begin to appear in Erik Christian’s façade of normalcy.

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Confessions of An At-Home Dad: “I’m Scared as Hell When It Comes to Raising My Daughter”

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NYC Dads guest blogger Lorne Jaffe is a new at-home dad who has struggled with depression and anxiety for most of his life.

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The Spoiled Only Child

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Being the adopted child of older parents made Christopher Banks the subject of bullying in school.

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Military PTSD and the DSM-V

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Implications for combat veterans as the APA considers revisions to the DSM-V.

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Living on a Thread

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Without anti-depressants, writes Dichotomy Hubris, his will to live would run out in four months or less.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying …. And Love the Bipolar Disorder

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Shawn Maxam discusses the importance of accepting his mental illness.

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Post-Partum Depression in Men: It’s Real

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Lauren Hale insists that men can, and often do, suffer from a form of Post-Partum Depression. But there is hope.

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My Name Is John, And I’m An Addict

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John Taylor is sober today, and that’s all that counts.

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300 Pounds and Afraid of The World

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Archy offers an insider’s perspective on how an anxiety disorder can overtake a man’s life.

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The Cognitive Dissonance Of Love

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When bipolar illness would’t let the woman he loved find her voice, Jack Varnell wrote the voice he heard anyway.

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Not All Narcissists Love What They See in the Mirror

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A man diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder explains how living with NPD is very different from what one might expect.

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On Mental Illness

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Exploring and exploding the issues surrounding men and mental illness.

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