Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
If I may mangle a phrase: you may be mental illness, but you’re not alone. My battles with depression sound eerily similar, from the sudden onsets to the problems with getting people to accept that a rational person can go through bouts of irrationality. I’m wondering how common this pattern is.
WOW I needed this. I was just diagnosed with functioning borderline personality disorder. I understand on a real fundamental level with what you wrote.
You can’t reason or rationalise yourself out of mental illness.
Thank you. I started dealing with suicidal thoughts (not even thoughts that I should die, just intense awareness that I could if I wanted to) for the first time sometime last year, and it’s good to hear others’ experiences with them in a context that’s not just “Considering suicide is a cry for help!” which is most of the message that I heard as a child and doesn’t fit with my experience at all. It’s good to hear it’s not just me.
If I may mangle a phrase: you may be mental illness, but you’re not alone. My battles with depression sound eerily similar, from the sudden onsets to the problems with getting people to accept that a rational person can go through bouts of irrationality. I’m wondering how common this pattern is.
Thank you.
Love you!
WOW I needed this. I was just diagnosed with functioning borderline personality disorder. I understand on a real fundamental level with what you wrote.
You can’t reason or rationalise yourself out of mental illness.
Thank you for all you do!
Thank you. I started dealing with suicidal thoughts (not even thoughts that I should die, just intense awareness that I could if I wanted to) for the first time sometime last year, and it’s good to hear others’ experiences with them in a context that’s not just “Considering suicide is a cry for help!” which is most of the message that I heard as a child and doesn’t fit with my experience at all. It’s good to hear it’s not just me.