Imagine my surprise in learning it was common for bipolar and anxiety to affect individuals simultaneously. However, they forgot to explain this fact until I collapsed in the bank. Whoops!
Mental Health ~ Bipolar With a Side of Anxiety
Mental Health ~ Bipolar Beginnings
In January 2002, I accepted I have a chronic mental illness, and a journey began. I experienced a myriad of emotions at the time, such as anger, disappointment, fear, and a mild case of feeling sorry for myself!
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Mental Health ~ The Journal, #22
My ultimate victory didn't come from wielding swords. No, my victory came through complete surrender.
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Their Addiction-My Journey-Grief in Addiction
Pain in addiction.
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Five Minute Friday- “I never left you.”
I moved through time with the reminder of his evil touch. The fear and anger of unwanted touch and ugly memories so triggering, I chose to hold them deep in my silent self. I sauntered as a woman scorned to one therapist after another, always sharing just enough but never close to all.
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Lost & Found- Retreat.
Is the battle lost? Lost and found came in the wake of the reality that my ‘baby’ was approaching 18 and my time as a certain type of mother was ending. He is now 20, and doing well. I am now even more lost than found; I wonder if there will come a day that …
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Mental Health ~ The Journal, #21
..I sat recovering from sets of circumstances that knocked me off my balance, and laughed as I took a free fall into the dark caverns of defeat. That piece of depression pisses me off- the laughter I hear as I crash. I hate that laughter, so the comeback is typically my game.
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Five Minute Friday- A Soldier’s Cry
One lonesome soldier knew..
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Mental Health ~ Stigmas and other nonsense
I refuse to allow your misunderstood ideas interfere with my living life to the fullest. I also refuse to live within the confines of the margins you create.
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Bipolar Life- Tackling Social Media and Mental Health
The social media craze is now permanent. I often drive down a street and see an oncoming car looking at their phone- no matter how many commercials are out there against this practice. There is scrolling in waiting rooms, cashier lines, at family gatherings, etc., etc. etc. I am not innocent here, just simply stating …
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