ARTISTS have the gift of translating the visible world onto canvas. Some take the more difficult challenge of transmitting invisible pain into gobs of color.
For weeks, people kept going up to me: “Wow, you’ve lost so much weight. What’s your secret?”
As the moving force behind the Citizens’ Network for Psychosocial Response (CNETPSR), a loose multisector coalition of mental health professionals and NGOs engaged in psychosocial interventions, Dr. June Pagaduan-Lopez, a noted psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry, and stress and trauma expert, was among the first volunteers to hit Tacloban in January 2014.
People who suffer from psychosis are about three times more likely to be smokers, but scientists have long scratched their heads over which one leads to the other.
Mental disorders still carry a stigma even in this era of progressive thinkers, a century after Freud conceived of psychoanalysis. Many are forced to hide behind polite smiles, feeling disgraced by a medical condition they have no control over. Advances in neuroscience research, however, may just change all that.
One of the most inhuman tragedies that can befall a normal family is for one of its members to be sick with mental illness. Some call it a curse.
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