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1. Personal Stories of Eating Disorders Stories from personal home pages and blogs about struggles with food.
2. BPD-Borderline Personality Disorder This page is dedicated to someone very important in my life! I have decided to created Faeries in honor of BPD Awareness. Let me begin by explaining that BPD stands for Borderline Personality Disorder. By a vote of 417-0, the House of Representative...
3. Multiple Personality (Dissociative Identity) Disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder, is a condition that is often misunderstood and unfairly stigmatized. Those with DID will tell you that their lives are sometimes difficult, but that it is possible to be s...
4. Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which there is a severe and prolonged inability to eat, with marked weight loss.
5. Death and Dying Death is inevitable; it is how we approach death that matters. The great poets and writers have contemplated the universality of death--much better than I could. Included here are a few representative thoughts on the subject: Ralph Waldo Em...
6. Bipolar Disorder Information Page bipolar disorder is a form of mood disorder characterised by a variation of mood between a phase of manic or hypomanic elation, hyperactivity and hyper imagination, and a depressive phase of inhibition, slowness to conceive ideas and move, and anxiet...
7. Driven to Cherokee: a memoir of involuntary commitment (Prologue to Driven to Cherokee: a memoir of involuntary commitment) I was driven to Cherokee. Goaded, impelled, pushed, forced. A hazy memory of riding in a caged police car. Two shadows in the front seat, the county sheriff and a female escort, jabber...
8. Bulimia Bulimia (buh-LEE -me-ah) nervosa, typically called bulimia, is a type of eating disorder. Someone with bulimia eats a lot of food in a short amount of time (called bingeing) and then tries to prevent weight gain by purging. Purging might be done in t...
9. Hypochondria I am sick dammit!  I know I am!  Hypochondriasis is a type of somatoform disorder, a mental illness in which a person has symptoms of a medical illness, but the symptoms cannot be fully explained by an actual physical disorder. People with h...
10. Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder—the most chronic and disabling of the severe mental illnesses. The first signs of schizophrenia, which typically emerge in young people in their teens or twenties, are confusing and often shocking t...