When you believe you are destined for greatness it is very likely that you will be labeled mentally ill. A person who is mentally ill is different and needs to be marked as such to let them know that they are not operating according to society’s expectations. Of course you are different from others. You …
Do you hear voices in your mind? Are these voices your intuition, your angels or something else? Are the voices real, or simply auditory hallucinations as psychologists have termed them? I had a chat with Robi, a 47-year-old German man who hails from Yugoslavia. Robi revealed that he hears voices. The same voices that would …
Michelle Dowell-Vest is a Clinical Hypnotist who believes that hypnosis is a viable treatment for mental health issues. She experienced an extreme loss when her partner committed suicide and even though she had done a lot of intentional healing work to help relieve the angst associated with that loss, every year around the anniversary of …
Justin Peck is the only professional off-road racecar driver in the state of Utah. He’s also the author of Bulletproof, a memoir that shares his story of acknowledging the mental brilliance of bipolar disorder and its impact on his life. Justin explained that having a mental health issue did not slow him down from any …
When someone is diagnosed with a mental illness, they either find relief in knowing that others have experienced the same things or they begin to feel badly about having a brain that they feel has somehow misfired. It’s a shame that when a person embraces feeling raw emotion and being in sync with their own …
You have a creative, brilliant mind, one that isn’t so readily embraced by mainstream workplaces so it’s best that you use your brilliance to sustain yourself financially. One of the best ways to create income is to share your knowledge in a self help book. What will you teach? There are several questions that will …
There is no general reason for wanting to commit suicide yet there are some common motivators. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, one of the following may be a trigger. They are tired of trying and not seeing results. They want relief from their physical or emotional pain. They feel that they …
Are you trying to figure out if something is wrong with you? You don’t seem to fit into this society and people have told you that you are mentally ill. Are you really mentally ill? Maybe you should consider that your connection to a mental health issue is a symptom of your ability to contribute …
Robert Dean really enjoyed his life filled with excessive drinking and late night debauchery at bars while simultaneously trying to make headway in his career as a writer. He partied so much that he didn’t notice any symptoms of anxiety and depression before he became a husband and father. After he became a parent, his …
Alyssa Patmos is a consultant on communication strategy for healthcare companies. She was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as a teenager. “I would have to flick the light switch on and off a certain amount of times every time I walked into and out of a room because I thought our house would catch fire …
