An excerpt from my latest blog post The Madness Memoir
(how many of us wondered about all these disorders when really our problem was SPD?)

I am contemplating a memoir with each chapter named after a mental illness found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Each chapter could highlight a scene or reflection that illustrated how that mental illness manifested in my life. I could have a chapter for:learning disabilities,major depressive disorder,Asperger syndrome,obsessive/compulsive disorder,hypomania,substance abuse,anxiety,etc. I could also have chapters for disorders which have not yet been named,categorized or quantified. Like the one...

read the rest at....
http://sensorina.com/2011/07/the-madness-memoir/

Sounds interesting! I would like to read all these article. Does mental disability comes after few years of born or it is from birth?

(07-28-2011, 12:11 AM)LaneSensorina Wrote: An excerpt from my latest blog post The Madness Memoir
(how many of us wondered about all these disorders when really our problem was SPD?)

I am contemplating a memoir with each chapter named after a mental illness found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Each chapter could highlight a scene or reflection that illustrated how that mental illness manifested in my life. I could have a chapter for:learning disabilities,major depressive disorder,Asperger syndrome,obsessive/compulsive disorder,hypomania,substance abuse,anxiety,etc. I could also have chapters for disorders which have not yet been named,categorized or quantified. Like the one...

read the rest at....
http://sensorina.com/2011/07/the-madness-memoir/

I really respect your honesty in your post. It takes courage to accept and share our different challenges.