I've been on extreme mood stabilizers and I've always wondered, would it be better to just get off the meds and listen to the voices in my head. Does anyone else ever feel like this?

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name: willow.
age: 18
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? sylvia plath, virginia woolf, francesca lia block, marya hornbacher, emily dickinson, anne sexton...
favorite books on madness? The Bell Jar, Wasted, Mrs. Dalloway, so very many poems.
favorite films which document or hint at "women & madness"? The Hours; Girl, Interrupted ( Read more... )

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name: Rie.
age: 21.
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.
favorite books on madness? The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness by Rebecca Shannonhouse, My Madness Saved Me: The ( Read more... )

name: Brooke Autumn
age: 15
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness?  Plath (is an eternal goddess), Anne Sexton and Diane Arbus (was a photographer but a women and mad all the same).
favorite books on madness?  The Bell Jar, Virgin Suicides along with many others that can't seem to find their way into my mind at the moment.
favorite films ( Read more... )

I've been here for a long time, and I've posted other stuff, but reading Amy's post the other day made me go back and read all the posts, and I realized that I never did post one of these. So here it is ( Read more... )

Dear Ass-wipe ( Read more... )

hi! i'm thrilled to find this community. i am pretty much obsessed by women and madness. right now i'm a senior in college and i'm writing my undergrad thesis about it. i way i've been summing it up recently is something like: "i intend to explore the emotions surrounding the fuzzy line between sanity and madness" but what i'll actually end up with ( Read more... )

It's a mega-zine, a ONE TIME issue on Mothering and Mental Health ( Read more... )