Top stories published by Totally Mental in 2017

“We often take a militaristic, “tough” approach to resilience and grit. We imagine a Marine slogging through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the turf for one more play. We…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Oct 2, 2017

“The new Netflix series “Atypical” portrays autistic men as sexist jerks”

“In real life, women, queer people, and people of color can be autistic. But as Matthew Rozsca writes at Salon, an autistic individual onscreen is “nearly always as a white, heterosexual male.” Often…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Dec 17, 2017

“ADHD Tipping Points: Why people with ADHD suddenly seem to fall apart, and what you can do about it”

“In her coaching practice, Laurie met many people diagnosed as adults as late as middle age. Often, they had functioned well in school, at work, and in their…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Apr 20, 2017

“How ADHD Affects Adults”

“Adults with ADHD have a tricky path to navigate. Those now in their 20s diagnosed with the disorder will have grown up during the noughties when newspapers were splashed with pictures of kids snorting Ritalin (a drug often used to treat ADHD) at school. ‘ADHD is just a scapegoat…

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Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Mar 14, 2017

“Blind Positivity Sucks.”

“Positivity that calls for you to hide behind “good vibes” instead of facing up to the reality of your life is never going to be healthy. It will never support you or prop you up. All it can ever do is provide you with a sense of hope built up on a platform so fucking weak that it…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Oct 14, 2017

“Who Gets To Be The “Good Schizophrenic”?”

“Living under the shadow of a new “code” bore no curative function, but it did imply that to be high-functioning would be difficult, and it warned me that to live beyond that code would be a tricky gambit. A therapist had already told me in my…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Jan 4, 2017

“An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence”

“The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Nov 10, 2017

“We Cannot Continue to Overlook ‘High-Functioning’ Depression”

“It’s easy to put depression into a box of symptoms, and though we as a society are constantly told mental illness comes in all shapes and sizes, we are stuck with a mental health stock image in our heads that many people…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Oct 11, 2017

“WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DECIDE EVERYONE ELSE IS A NARCISSIST”

“The concept of pathological narcissism dates back, Dombek explains, to the end of the nineteenth century, when the English doctor and writer Havelock Ellis described sexual behavior animated by attraction to one’s own self as…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Oct 13, 2017

“Can Attachment Theory Explain All Our Relationships?”

“Bowlby’s theory was that babies can’t handle their own fear, sadness, wet-diaper-ness, hunger, etcetera and need someone to handle it for them. This process begins with “co-regulation” with the caregiver and ends, ideally, with “the…

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