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3 Netflix shows you can watch to better understand mental illness

After my first time in the psychiatric hospital, I was always curious to know and understand as much as possible about what it means to have and live with a mental illness, to see other people or characters who are going or have gone through something similar, to

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Borderline – with one foot always at war

Manipulators. Chaotic. Unstable. Irrational. Hypersensitive. Extreme. Toxic. This is what they call us. People think we're unlovable. They're trying to stay away from us so we don't destroy them, so we don't push them out of their comfort zone

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Me and mental disorders: a story about stigma, diagnosis and recovery

I've been hearing pretty much all my 20-something life "think positive" or "stop thinking negative" or "if you think negative that's all you'll attract". Sure, it's easy enough for a "normal" person to push away less pleasant thoughts, but what about someone who tries and tries again and again and fails? Who fails to be "positive" like "the others". These two words have been foreign to me for a long time now.