Bodymind Counseling
Back in the mid-oughts while interning at a psychiatric clinic, I was assigned a patient who a half dozen other therapists had given up on over an 8-year period. She had been diagnosed as Bipolar 1 with psychotic features. After a few months of working with this young woman I suggested she tell a general practitioner that her new therapist (me) thought there may be something else seriously wrong, something physical. Turned out, she had multiple sclerosis. After six months of successful management and treatment for it, she was able to go back to college and regain custody of her children. She wasn’t bipolar at all. This successful denouement was one of the reasons I started Bodymind Counseling upon graduation in ’06. Sometimes, it’s simply impossible to separate the the mind from the body.—MR
A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry
The young woman was catatonic, stuck at the nurses’ station — unmoving, unblinking and unknowing of where or who she was.
