It took me years to figure out exactly where my disorders came from. What fueled them exactly? What issues were they tied to ( Read more... )

It's amazing what habits children pick up. For myself, I learned how to "control" chaos by channeling uncertainty into action by watching my mother. When she was nervous or feeling overwhelmed, she grew quiet and lost herself in sewing, cooking or cleaning. She might not be able to control my father's temper, the finances or the things her children ( Read more... )

As the holidays near, it seems like the issue of suicide keeps coming up. A friend of mine is currently struggling with this, as someone in her family attempted to take her life late last week ( Read more... )

In a revolutionary new study, scientists have discovered that people who commit suicide have "nearly 10 times higher the rate of methylation -- which shuts down unwanted genes in a cell -- in their brains. The gene being shut down in the brains of the suicide victims was a chemical message receptor that plays a critical role in behavior regulation ( Read more... )

As a child, I wasn't given a whole lot of choices ( Read more... )

I've always found it interesting how people relate to one another. As humans, we are not solitary creatures. Even individuals who pride themselves on being "loners", usually have friends, other "loners" they hang out with ( Read more... )

I got an interesting question yesterday ( Read more... )

I get asked a lot about the role therapy has played in both my life and recovery. People want to know if there isn't a "cure" for self-injury, what's the point in opening yourself up that way to a stranger? How much will they really be able to help anyway ( Read more... )

As a child, some of my most vivid memories are of times spent at my grandmother's house. I loved the time I spent with her and she made my brothers and I feel like we were her favorite playmates. She never tired of playing the same old games over and over again, and whenever it was "grown up time", I would have quite a bit of time alone to explore ( Read more... )

I think self-injury is like a boomerang. No matter how far in the past I've left it, it always manages to come back into my life at the most inopportune moments ( Read more... )