Author and blogger Tanya J. Peterson
Like many of the millions of people living with mental illness, I haven’t always been good. My most “ungood” period involved five stays in a behavioral health hospital over the course of a couple years. I was admitted for the first time because of a plummeting ability to function in daily life. It was a result of a traumatic brain injury sustained in a car accident, or so I believed. Early on, I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and social anxiety disorder. But that was wrong, I said. I had a brain injury, not mental illness.
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Tanya J. Peterson is the author of Leave of Absence. Listen to her interview with Mental Health & Wellness Radio. Her new book My Life in a Nutshell: A Novel will be out soon.
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