Last week I mentioned that due to a series of panic attacks I did not get an essay turned in, so I did the math and determined that the best final grade I was capable of was a “C”. I discussed this with my professor and he encouraged me to drop the class and take it […]
Category: mental health
Fifty
Tomorrow (Saturday Sept 28) is my fiftieth birthday. Yep, the big Five-O. I didn’t think it was going to bother me, but I’m shocked that I was wrong. All week I’ve been irritable. It didn’t bother me when I turned thirty. It didn’t bother me when I turned 40. Interestingly, it did bother me […]
Wednesday’s Quote: Sadie Turner
“People often say “Just look for the silver lining.” But what do you say to the person surrounded by fog? They don’t see a fluffy object in the sky, blocking the sun for a moment or two. But instead, they see everything as it was before, but through the murky, un-clarity of hopelessness. As if […]
Wednesday’s Quote: D.D. Barant
“I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.” – D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
Missing Mania
I miss mania. The last time I felt manic was back in February of last year. My pdoc asked me how I was doing and I practically leaped out of my seat and said “FANTASTIC!” It was a lot like Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch kind of thing. We had a little chat and […]
Wednesday’s Quote: Stanley Victor Paskavich
“Saying I don’t take my meds because they make me feel funny. Is like cannibals saying they don’t eat clowns because the taste funny” – Stanley Victor Paskavich
Wednesday’s Quote: Marty Rubin
“We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.” – Marty Rubin
Losing Your Sense of Self
A fellow blogger forwarded me an article published in April in the New York Times Magazine. The article was beautifully written by Linda Logan and details her 20 year journey living with bipolar. She does an excellent job of detailing the hell that it can be living with a mood disorder and the loss of […]
Wednesday’s Quote: Carrie Fisher
“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, […]
Bring Change 2 Mind
I was aware that Glenn Close has a sister, and a nephew with mental illness and that Glenn is active in helping to erase the stigma of mental illness. What I did not know is that she is the founder of Bring Change 2 Mind which is a national anti-stigma campaign. (I’m sure many of […]