Hamlet Wrenncroft

Trigger part IX: songs from the big chair

Disclaimer: This column is part nine of a 10 part series dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

I lef…

Trigger part VIII: dispatches from room 101

Disclaimer: This column is part eight of a 10 part series dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

I wa…

Trigger part VII: Hamlet in Bethlehem

Disclaimer: This column is part seven of a 10 part series dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

“I c…

Trigger part VI: countdown to final crisis

Disclaimer: This column is part six of a 10 part series dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

“[Ther…

Part five: mad love

Disclaimer: This column is part five of a 10 part series dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

I spe…

Part IV: what I talk about when I talk about Sharples

Disclaimer: This column is part four of a ten part series, dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

You…

Part III: germ free adolescence

Disclaimer: This column is part three of a ten part series, dealing with the author’s experiences with mental illness. As it contains explicit subject matter, sensitive readers may wish to avoid.

Do…

Part II: Some say that the world will end in ice

Unless you’ve taken Clinical Psych (I take great satisfaction in the fact that the psychology department no longer considers me “abnormal”), you probably know only the basics of obsessive compulsive d…

Part I: It may interest some of you to know that I am insane

In June of 2007 I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder.

I apologize, because OCD is really boring. Understand that nothing would please me more than to captivate you with thrilling true s…