Sometimes while I watch some mindlessly good television or when I listen to some Rich Eisen podcasts, I take online surveys via those sites that pay you for taking them. Some of the surveys are rather interesting, and occasionally its a way to get to know what products may be in the pipeline for various [...]
A little while ago when I was making an effort to be less of a hoarder, I came across a piece of paper I hadnt seen in a long time. It was my psych hospital discharge sheet from September 2004, the stay that came about because of a wholehearted attempt at suicide. What was most interesting about [...]
Its early afternoon on a Friday, and Im sitting inside a Starbucks, facing a giant window that allows me to watch all the people coming and going from this retail strip. The sky is gray today, and its as if you can see all the individual droplets of rain thats hitting the pavement since they [...]
its been a while since Ive been here. It was more of a forced abandonment , really. Perhaps Ill explain about it sometime later. The main issue had to do with a sister who found out about this blog, and then threatened to tell about the blog to other members of the family if I [...]
My friend Alexandra recently recommended me to be a member on the Young Professionals Board of the Park Center, a local agency that provides opportunities and promotes recovery of persons with mental illness through holistic services that focus on their needs, choices and strengths (See their PSA above). I havent been officially inducted into the [...]
Ive been gaining pound after pound over this entire year, and its been really hard to figure out why. Its true that Ive gone out to eat more often during the week now that I have the boyfriend to have fun doing things like that. But that doesnt really explain for the extra twenty or [...]
I posted the animated Abilify commercial on the site in March, and was fascinated with the depression blob that follows the depressed woman around. I came across this what Im guessing is a pretty new commercial for Seroquel XR the other day and noticed that this one features a cloud that follows the depressed people [...]
Ive been having a really hard time getting up in the morning. I could stagger from the bed to the couch, but I can easily fall right back asleep for hours. Its not like Ive been going to sleep that late. Its gotten to a point where I can sleep even after 11 a.m., which [...]
The summers not yet over, but Im already looking back at it. I think about the hypomanic episode I had and bouts of depression following it. In fact, those moments of depression never seem to be that far away. Everyday I take medication in effort to keep all those things at bay, and see a [...]
One of the things that binds me and the boyfriend together is our extensive experience with depression. Because of our shared illness, weve definitely accumulated some unresolved issues that influence how we think, and ultimately influence how we interact with each other. Nothing is really going wrong in the relationship, but I really felt like [...]
