What Happens? Hypomania Happens
What happens when I over-involve myself in social media? (If you are viewing this post from my lovely website, look to the right - or if on a mobile device, to the bottom [...]
What happens when I over-involve myself in social media? (If you are viewing this post from my lovely website, look to the right - or if on a mobile device, to the bottom [...]
What do you know about mental illness? By Gabby Abbott | Apr. 15, 2015 | 285 Submissions Author Marya Hornbacher is working on a book about mental illness. Her book will profile the [...]
Prompted by an invite to Tha.Speakeasy Facebook event on April 17th & 18th, I read my poem, Bad Mom, which I'm posting here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSPxegcCxEM Bad Mom Bad mom Selfish mom Ineffective mom Permissive [...]
Walker Karraa, PhD My friend & colleague, Dr. Walker Karraa, is studying the stigma surrounding postpartum bipolar disorder. If you fit her research criteria and are interested in participating, please do so. Her [...]
I am SO disappointed. Woke up this morning with gastroenteritis. Not able to go on my trip to the San Franciscod Bay Area. Not able to be interviewed for Rebecca Gitenstein's study on mothers [...]
Happy Birthday to My Dear Friend Dyane Harwood and Her Muse Lucy This weekend I’m going up to the San Francisco Bay Area so that Rebecca Gitenstein can interview me at The Wright [...]
Long time in coming... below more emotionally substantive content are the results of the survey I took in mid-February. First of all, my first reaction to being asked to take a survey is [...]
La Sabrosona of my spanglish familia interviewed me about parenting while living with bipolar disorder. Here is the interview:
At the beginning of this week, Terezin - a woman who had been horrifically abused by a mother diagnosed with manic depressive psychosis - read my poem Suicide Infanticide and was understandably enraged. My poem described a fleeting [...]
Updated my Resources page, adding Child Welfare Resources, in preparation for tomorrow's post about compassion and childhood trauma for #1000Speak for Compassion. Child Welfare Resources Prevent Child Abuse America Healthy Families America Child Welfare Information [...]