Mental health and disability: studying your own disorder
By JACOB WOJTOWICZ | Mar. 28Laura Sills, 28, is a graduate student in UB’s sociology department. While she studies ADHD, her research is more than academic—it’s personal.
Laura Sills, 28, is a graduate student in UB’s sociology department. While she studies ADHD, her research is more than academic—it’s personal.
Megan Hosfield, 25, is a graduate student in UB’s sociology department studying bipolar disorder. But for her, the research is deeply personal—she has the disorder herself.
At the turn of the century, middle-aged, depressed screenwriter David Chase penned the pilot for a story about a mobster in therapy. Within eight years, it became America’s favorite show and is now widely considered to have sparked the “Golden Age of Television.”
UB has a safe space for neurodivergent students to decompress and build community. The Neuridivergent Affinity Group is meant to provide justice for students with disabilities.
With 18 chapters and 97 co-authors from all over the world, two chapters were co-written by a psychologist here in Buffalo who has worked with transgender and intersex clients for the past five decades: Dr. Tom Mazur.