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Psychiatric Medication for Psychotic People?

Psychiatric Medication for Psychotic People?

2015-05-26
By: Erin Konheim Mandras
On: May 26, 2015
In: Blog

“Here is a prescription that I need you to fill today, and begin taking tomorrow. It will take a couple weeks to kick in, so you may not feel or see any changes. Take a half a pill a day to start,” my psychiatrist instructed me. I looked at the script and it read, “Zoloft.” ZOLOFT?? As in antidepressant medication? As in any medication period? I’m sorry doc, but I was raised to fight through tough times on my own. And no doubt would there be tough times to fight through, but I was not to depend on a pill to assist me. Was IRead More →

Heredity

Heredity

2015-04-23
By: Erin Konheim Mandras
On: April 23, 2015
In: Blog

Born at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan on June 15, 1984 at 9:28am, I increased a family of three to four. Lisa and Joseph Konheim were high school sweethearts, married at 20 years old, had their first child, Ari, at 24, and me, their second, at 26. They had their third and final child, Jeremy, at age 29. Both Lisa and Joseph were born and raised in a suburb of Detroit called Oak Park, Michigan. It was a close knit neighborhood, where the name of your block identified your exact location. At the time, Oak Park was a heavily Jewish populated community, where diversity lackedRead More →

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