When a Patient Can't See Their Own Illness

Psychology Today | 24.06.2026 01:14
Before the manic psychosis I described in earlier posts, I lived a long stretch of polypharmacy and misdiagnosis. It began with a suicidal collapse in 2016, an overdose that left me in a coma for six days. What followed were years of antidepressants and other medications prescribed for what clinicians called major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.