1. Not everything has to do with bipolar. We have bad days just like everyone else. We get mad, sad, frustrated, upset, but it doesn’t have to be due to our illness. In fact, it’s kind of patronizing to accuse us of having a mood swing when we’re really just having a crappy time of it. We are allowedContinue reading “More Things I Wish People Knew About Bipolar Disorder”
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Shifting Gears
OK. I’ve taken a couple of days off from posting and I feel refreshed. A good friend of mine took me to task the other night for overthinking and being too self-involved, and as much as it hurt (me? overthink? I would never…..haha) I had to admit she was right. As a result, I’ve beenContinue reading “Shifting Gears”
Up And Down and All Around
And the festivities continue: my maiden voyage at work was a disaster, and tomorrow I get to meet with the bigwigs and the trainers for the postmortem…..oops, I meant performance review. I’m looking forward to that about as much as I would my own execution, but in a sense it’ll be a relief to find out exactly where IContinue reading “Up And Down and All Around”
Moment of Truth
We are now less than twelve hours away from Will’s liver biopsy, and do you know what that man is doing? Changing the sheets on our bed and cleaning out the cat litter box as if there were absolutely nothing wrong with him……as if he hadn’t been so weak earlier this morning that the priest broughtContinue reading “Moment of Truth”
Between Scylla and Charybdis
As I reported yesterday, I had gotten myself into a state of what I’ve come to call pre-hypomania, which is when I feel like an episode just might be brewing but could go either way. I was a bit over-amped, couldn’t stop wiggling, and talking a little too fast and a little too loud, inContinue reading “Between Scylla and Charybdis”
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