Austin Antuzzi

If you do I’m so sorry I do too. This post is for those who feel as if they were mistreated or even abused by the mental health system. Let me start by sharing my first experience with the mental health system. While I actually started seeing a therapist when I was was 18 I’m going to skip past this initial experience and jump ahead to when I was around 22 years old and I was put under an involuntary hold at a mental hospital in North Carolina. I was experiencing mania, was delusional,...

For some of you the thought of therapy sounds embarrassing and awkward. It may make you feel uncomfortable or weak like “why do I need therapy?I can manage on my own” or “what does this person know that I don’t?”or”what happens when my coworkers find out I go to therapy” First I want to say how much courage and strength it takes to make the decision to begin therapy. I know a lot of you really don’t want to go to therapy and that it embarrasses you. My advice is that when it comes to mental...

Deciding to make the courageous decision to take medication can be frightening and embarrassing. One might fear the side effects or be embarrassed by the thought that they require medication just so they can function when others can function without medication, or you might think that you don’t need medication and that your will power alone will be enough to control your mental illness or you may even think that you don’t have a mental illness and therefore definitely do not need medication....