Exhausted While Bipolar
Exhausted by life stressors. Understandably so. I have this. Just takes a LOT of energy. Recently I've been totally overwhelmed and exhausted. A virus almost took my mother's life. Thank God she survived. [...]
Lynn Nanos Guest Post: Revolving Door of the Mental Health System
Thank you, Lynn Nanos, LICSW, author of Breakdown: A Clinician's Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry, for this guest post. "When hospitals release seriously mentally ill patients too soon without outpatient [...]
Funneling Exercise: Admired and Called
Characteristics I admire: Compassion, Creativity, Bravery, Love, Intelligence
Memory: A Poem
Not too good with time Past, Present, Future My mind erases what is not in front of me. Too many other thoughts and concerns competing for my attention. -Kitt O'Malley
Recovering from Hypomania
Recovering from hypomania and fatigue. Need to relax, slow down, and heal.
Hypomanic: Something Had to Break
Struggling with symptoms of hypomania
Creative Writing Prompt: Rainstorm
I Prompt for first creative writing class: RAINSTORM Rainstorm The torrential rain kept her awake. She couldn’t sleep. Wasn’t rain supposed to be relaxing? What was it that disturbed her? Why could she [...]
2019 Goals
White Christmas with snow-dusted ponderosa pines Christmas 2018 Christmas was both beautiful and bittersweet. We spent the holiday among snow covered ponderosa pines with close family, dearly missing our recently departed [...]
I've Been Quiet Lately
I've been quiet lately. Out of commission. Taking it easy. This holiday season brings tough firsts. First Thanksgiving since my father died in April. First Christmas coming up. My sister and I plan [...]