The Discourse of Self-Diagnoses
Self-diagnoses can be problematic, but unfortunately, for some, it’s the most accessible option Hassan Merali // ContributorLogan David // Illustrator “I’m kind of OCD about keeping my room clean.” The […]
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Living with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Will I ever overcome the agony of criticism? Rain Marie // Community Relations Manager It is 8:00 am and I am sitting in the corner of my stuffy Grade 12 […]
Mind Your Manners
From table manners to the world of business, etiquette is the social architecture behind how we interact with the world, and ourselves Sarah Rose // Features Editor From the moment […]
ADDitude Adjustment: Crass, my bedroom and the colour pink
Sarah Rose // Features Editor When I was in kindergarten my favourite colour was pink. As a four-year-old, I was still fairly removed from ideas about gender roles, like the paradoxical history of […]
ADDitude Adjustment: The war on drugs
Sarah Rose // Features Editor The unopened prescription bottle sat on my desk for weeks before I finally peered inside to the ocean of blue pills. Sometimes I’d swirl them […]
ADDitude Adjustment: The Idiogenic Nature of Love
Sarah Rose // Features Editor The crusade against the feminine in psychiatry began with the father of psychoanalysis himself. In Studies on Hysteria, Sigmund Freud first introduced the notion that hysteria was idiogenic: […]
ADDitude Adjustment: The Language of ADHD
Sarah Rose // Features Editor “Language,” William S Burroughs reminds us, “is a virus from outer space.” I first heard the word maladaptive during my first inpatient psychiatric stay when […]