Delano's Story

Chapter One: Journeying Back to Self’

This blog is an attempt to make sense of what brought me into the world of psychiatry as a child and of where it would take me for the next fourteen years.  It is an effort to document where I go from here and how I come to make sense of who I am apart from diagnoses and medications and mental hospitals.  In essence, I am embarking on a new journey towards ‘self’, towards gaining an understanding of what lies underneath the drugging, numbing, and altering that once, not so long ago, left me convinced that I was resigned to life as a chronic patient.