Lesbian Problems

Not All Killers

A paranoid schizophrenic murderer escaped from a psychiatric hospital near me lately and there is more stigma now surrounding schizophrenics. They are not all killers. There is a stigma attached to schizophrenics and this latest news just adds to the stigma. Some schizophrenics are murderers, so are some postmen or nurses. Anyone can be a murderer. Those who are mentally ill have more risk of BEING hurt by others than hurting OTHERS.

Mental Health: Helpful Sites

http://www.mind.org.uk/
Mind - a mental health charity - their website offers support for those living with mental illness and their family/friends
http://www.rethink.org/
A mental health charity
http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/
A charity campaigning to end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness
http://www.samaritans.org/
A suicide hotline
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
The Mental Health Charity
http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/index.html
A lifesaving piece of information

Crazy But Talented

There seems to be a slight link between insanity and creativity. Many famous writers, poets and artists were mentally ill, such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and Vincent Van Gogh. There are not only the creative but the Mathematically minded such as John Forbes Nash who is a famous Mathematician who suffers from schizophrenia.
Is there such a link? Do the mentally ill have hidden talents or the talented have hidden illnesses?
Apparently schizophrenics are usually rather artistic and creative and people who suffer with bipolar disorder, when on a high, can be very creative and motivated.
Those with depression can scribble out a poem that informs even the happiest of minds just how bleak life can be. So it's not all cheery.
But there seems to be some kind of link between the mentally ill and the talented.
I'm not saying I am talented though.

Other Blogs I Read And Recommend

Below are some blogs that I read, whether be it from Wordpress or Blogger:
http://loopylonelyandlost.wordpress.com/
A blog about mental illness (by a cyclothymia sufferer)
http://whatalifewealllive.blogspot.co.uk/
A blog about life
http://www.kaelynandlucy.com/
A blog about a long distance lesbian couple's relationship
http://borderlinebipolarblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/
A blog about mental illness (especially borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder)