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Not Being Sick Isn’t Good Enough! Using a Quality of Life Questionnaire to...
What does ‘recovery’ mean to you? Less hospital stays? Reduction in symptoms? I think of a life lived with sense of well-being, regardless of the occurrence of depressive or manic episodes. It’d be...
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You don’t ‘deserve’ wellness. It is your right!
As someone living with bipolar disorder, anxiety and psychosis, both medication AND psychotherapy have been effective and essential for me. Using one without the other, they don’t have the same...
View ArticleIs Meditation for Kooks? Okay Then, Call Me One
I used to think meditation was for kooks. As a child, I stumbled on my biological father's mini-shrine one visit. He said, "don't go in there." Naturally my sister and I did the minute he went upstairs...
View ArticleA Lesson Learned
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how I made the decision to discontinue the use of one of my medications, an anti-depressant. This decision was made along with consulting with my p-doc.Well, it’s...
View ArticleInspirational Quotes and Sayings
This is a bit painful to admit but I probably should attend a 12-step program for people who are addicted to Pinterest. Nearly every night before bedtime I have to check out Pinterest. It’s like my...
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Meditation Take Two
I have come to love meditation. I know, I know, I wrote about it last post already; but I cannot praise it enough. I stumbled on it last year when needed it. I mentioned I found a free meditation...
View ArticleStruggles Bring Strength
Last week I lifted a few weights at the gym. It reminded me why I had not been lifting weights; my arms get sore! I hate the ache that follows. I confess that I am by nature a couch-potato. Most...
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Fear or Courage?
Fear is what drives what I do or don’t do far too often. When I make choices that are based upon a fear it usually does nothing for my recovery. Fear is not my friend. It keeps me from moving...
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How Apt! An App for Mental Health
I don’t know about you, but as September rolls around the fun busyness of summer evolves into the not-so-fun hecticness of fall. The transition can bring overwhelm, especially for students returning...
View ArticleSimply the Best: Getting the Top Psychiatrist You Can Afford
I don't know about you, but I have been to some real wing-dinger psychiatrists. Once I was on nine medications at a local clinic. Then, there was the the psychiatrist who made me journal - and read...
View ArticleChoosing to Live!
Far too many of us know that when you’re in a depressed state it is so difficult to choose to live. That is, to get up and live each day. In other words, when depressed you are alive, but choosing to...
View ArticleSuicide, Robin Williams, The Quilt and Me
It’s that time of year for me to reflect, and the news of Robin Williams’ suicide reminded of my anniversary. While the world had their reaction and reflection of his death, in the bipolar community,...
View ArticleAn Very Important List!
Recently I started a list. Lists help me remember things and allow me to stay focused on what I need to get done. This new list that I have started is a list of things that I have done or am doing to...
View ArticleInflammation & Mood
About two months after the mid-May incident in which a hit-and-run driver crushed my collarbone, requiring surgery, and to date 3 ½ months of recovery, I began to fall hard and steep into depression....
View ArticleShe's in Mania, Mania Oh No
The end of August and beginning of September is the worst time of year for me mania-wise. I'm on spending lockdown, when all I want to do is shop on-line and plan vacations. I talk a mile a minute to...
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Know Thy Limits - Stress in the Workplace
When I graduated college, instead of embarking on a career and climbing the proverbial ladder, my psychiatrist recommended I take a low stress job. 'Fantastic', I thought. 'I went through four years...
View ArticleMantras, Grattitude and Me
Have you ever had blessings that leave you exhausted? This is the first year the scales have been tipped in my favor. I earned it, though I don't always feel it. My life has never been better, yet I...
View ArticleMantras, Grattitude and Me
Have you ever had blessings that leave you exhausted? This is the first year the scales have been tipped in my favor. I've earned it, though, I don't always feel it. I was about to make change in...
View ArticleAre You Recovering?
Words have meaning. Of course, what exactly might be one’s definition or meaning of a word can and does vary from person to person. One such word is the word, “recover”. Since I started to post the...
View ArticleWellness is a Verb
I used to think wellness was a destination. If you do all of these things (insert list here), you will be declared by yourself or someone else to be "well."However, after looking back on periods of...
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