Man Won't Let His Mental Illness Define Him

By HealthDay 

Loren Booda experienced his first psychotic break when he was 19 years old.

Then a sophomore studying physics at an Ivy League university, Booda had struggled with feelings of anxiety and depression for years. He said he'd self-medicated by drinking and smoking marijuana. But then he tried LSD, and all of the demons that had been gnawing at his soul for years burst forth and took

Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices

By New York Times

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — The job was gone, the gun was loaded, and a voice was saying, "You're a waste, give up now, do it now."

It was a command, not a suggestion, and what mattered at that moment — a winter evening in 2000 — was not where the voice was coming from, but how assured it was, how persuasive.

Losing his first decent job ever seemed like too much for Joe Holt to live