The rise of Ozempic “Everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can’t help but wonder: Is Ozempic right for me?” Jimmy Kimmel joked during his Oscars monologue earlier this year. Ozempic, or Wegovy, or Mounjaro, has become quite popular in the last year. A drug primarily used for treating type 2 […]
Category Archives: Mental Illness
Clearing the fog around brain fog
posted by Sheetal Potdar
When was the last time you forgot where you kept your keys, or blanked out on someone’s name during an important conversation, or got distracted and abandoned an important task? While everyone might have faced these problems on more than one occasion, chances are that for most of us, these events are few and far […]
Striking and Totally Unexpected
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
If you would like to learn a little more about how epilepsy affects memory and more about my personal accounts, one of my previous articles, Shaken Memory, also talks about thes things. I consider this current article a revision, however, since I have learned a bit more about my condition. When Brenda Milner and William […]
Fatal Attraction: What is Sex and Love Addiction?
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
Have you ever been in love? Has it made you do crazy things? Whether it was sending your lover bundles of flowers, stalking their social media (or stalking them in person), or boiling a rabbit in a pot of water, we’ve all been there. We know that love is enthralling. It is potent enough in […]
A Series of Exciting Events
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
Have you ever wondered what it is like to have a seizure? Well, I have epilepsy, and let me tell you: so do I. That is because there are many different types of seizures and of epilepsy, and some—like mine—involve a loss of consciousness, as well as memory deficits. What all seizures have in common, […]
The Wandering Nerve
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
What do epilepsy, depression, and anxiety all have in common? No, this is not some one-liner joke, there is an actual answer to this question. Could it be that they all could be targeted by a single treatment? To understand how this could be, let’s look into what these disorders are, first. Epilepsy is a […]
Media Misrepresentations of Mental Illness: Dissociative Identity Disorder
posted by Jacqueline Mosko
It’s no secret that watching movies can create lasting impressions on viewers. This is true in cases of medical dramas, where viewers are introduced to rare diseases through interactions with fictional patients seeking help. It is also true of mental health conditions – both in the cases of television and movies, it has become increasingly […]
The Forgotten:
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
Image source: “New Awakenings: The Legacy & Future of Encephalitis Lethargica (EL)” (Sparacin 2012) Some call it “the sleepy-sickness”, others encephalitis lethargica. This mysterious disease, lost to time, bears its colloquial name because those who contracted it entered an “all-enveloping trancelike sleep” (1); and some of those who entered this sleep, did not awake for […]
A Genetic Identity Crisis: Mosaicism in the Brain
posted by Joseph Herdy
We carry with us every day trillions of copies of one of the best stories ever written: the human genome. Carefully drafted and edited over 4 billion years, our genome contains all the information necessary, and then some, for making a human being from scratch. Often we think of this recipe book as a monolith: […]
Brainspotting: Are the eyes the window to the soul?
posted by Desi Chu
“On the first session, I started by focusing on a difficult memory while concentrating on the pain that it caused me … This pain reached a climax, then … it died down, giving way to a feeling of peace and well-being … I sometimes felt myself shedding tears, but for each memory, the pain climaxed […]
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