#mental health

‘I perfected deception’: My secret life as a relapsed alcoholic | Meghan O'Gieblyn

Everyone knew about my years of addiction, the dangers I had put myself in. The second time around, after 11 years sober, not even my husband knew I am finding it very hard to write about my return to drinking. This is unexpected, given that I spent more than 10 years identifying as an alcoholic and narrating, from the podiums of church basements, the most shameful and unflattering moments of my life. The story of how you initially fell into addiction is comparatively easy to tell, because it’s widely understood that nobody chooses to become an addict, that it’s something that sneaks up on you

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A vital message to people in HR: "Protecting our own wellbeing is paramount"

Sarah Venables, an experienced HR veteran of 25 years, opened her keynote at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit with a story. It was a personal story, one of how she realised she had reached her lowest moments. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

Mental Hospitals at the Movies

The horror films of the 1970s captured a cultural shift from fears of institutional abuse to anxieties about psychiatric patients living freely. The post Mental Hospitals at the Movies appeared first on JSTOR Daily .

JSTOR Daily · EN