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Sandy Naiman is a passionate Emotional Health Advocate, journalist and professional blogger. Currently, she's blogging at PsychCentral and writing features for The Toronto Star websites ParentCentral.ca and Healthzone.ca

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Coming Out Crazy "Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light."

English - Language Of Respect, Eating Disorders, Being Too Different

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

6 Ways To Bounce Back From Unemployment Stress

Stress can’t begin to describe how it feels to cope with being unemployed. In today’s economy, with soaring unemployment rates, cut-backs, massive lay-offs and a consumerist culture shouts “buy, buy, buy,” it’s devastating to be jobless. Furthermore, our cultural values are out of sync – how we valu

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

Is Neurotic The New Normal?

Maybe there’s hope for me… In today’s New York Times, the lead article in the Sunday Review is titled Where Have All the Neurotics Gone? by health reporter Benedict Carey. Where are neurotics today? It seems they’ve become a thing of the past. An old, dying breed. According to Carey, “For a generati

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

Is There An End In Sight? Part 2…

There’s a mysterious, somewhat strange-sounding convention in psychiatry, I think. I’m not sure. I’ve never imagined it would apply to me, so I’ve never bothered to investigate it. I’ve steered far away from. It scares me. Leaving therapy… Here’s how it was explained to me at the Eating Disorders Ou

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

My Reunion With Dr. Bob, Part 1…

As anyone acquainted with me and this blog knows, I see a psychiatrist regularly for my mood disorder. We started seeing each other in 1991. He’s an unusual psychiatrist… Dr. Bob is not a psychoanalyst like my first psychotherapist back in 1960. She was Jungian and probably one of the only therapist

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

Punching Myself Up…

No. Don’t worry. I’m not getting into self-flagellation or abuse. Quite the contrary. Here’s the story… Back in 1977 when I joined the racy, irreverent tabloid Toronto Sun fresh out of broadsheet-biased journalism school (as all journalism schools were and probably still are) I had to learn to “punc

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

The Zen of Knitting…

In January, whilst in the thick of my Eating Disorders Outpatient Program, I began knitting. A scarf. I knit it on circular needles in three colours from a design in Alison Hansel’s Charmed Knits, Projects for Fans of Harry Potter. I didn’t follow the pattern very closely. Pattern-following isn’t r

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Coming Out Crazy · 1M ago

A Very, Very, Very Difficult Child …

I wasn’t there. I cannot attest to the factual accuracy of what I’m about to share with you. But according to a very close relative with whom I visited this weekend, I was given “everything” ~ all the love and attention in the world ~ but “there was something wrong with me.” “From birth,” the [...]

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Coming Out Crazy · 2M ago

Changing From The Inside Out…

I don’t want to think about when I last wrote to you. I feel and look like a different person. Inside and out. It is overwhelming for me to explain these differences. They may not even appear to you, but they are shouting loud and clear to me. Yes, I hear voices, all the time. [...]

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Coming Out Crazy · 3M ago

“Unconditional Worth” or Cherishing Your “Me-ness”…

We all long for unconditional love, but what about unconditional worth? Musing on this question will take more than one blog post, so consider this a beginning. Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D. concisely describes this concept in The Self-Esteem Workbook and when I first encountered it, to be perfectly hon

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Coming Out Crazy · 3M ago

Trusting The Wisdom of My Body…

I’m a perfectionist. So, naturally, I’m attempting to follow the meal plan designed for me in my Eating Disorders Program right down to every teaspoon, gram, ounce and millilitre. I am trying to eyeball my portions, but my eyeballs are slow learners. Plus the stresses of my life make this precarious

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