I’ve found that it helps to have things planned when you have depression problems. You may not WANT to plan things, but making the effort can make a huge difference. If you’re lonely, check out meetin.org or Craigslist groups.
I talk about these sites all of the time because I’ve met SO many friends off the internet. [...]
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I received such a great email from a reader named Daphne Stevens that I’m posting parts of it on the blog. I think it helps so much for us to see that we all go through the same challenges with this illness. Daphne and I discussed Lamictal and other meds. Here are her [...]
This is my amazing nephew David. He’s six. I was pretty depressed yesterday. David came up to me and gave me a hug. I said, “Auntie Wee is sick today.” He said, “I know.”
Wow. That is pretty insightful. I said, “How did you know I was depressed?” He said, “Because you’re always depressed!” I [...]
All right Julie, you just keep going…
This is what I say to myself when I wake up in a down mood. My mind starts to go into the- “what’s the point?” direction- and I make myself stop it.
First of all, not everything has to have a point and not everything I do has to have [...]
I’m slightly down today- well, probably more than slightly. I had a weeklong hypomanic episode last week and I knew this would happen. I still always hope it won’t. It has been 13 years and every time I have mania I go down almost immediately- and yet I still think things will change! What has [...]
Wow, considering how sick Britney Spears was last year, she sure is doing well.
When my partner Ivan went through a severe manic/psychotic episode, it took him a year to recover. I can’t imagine what it would have been like for him had he been in the public eye.
I’ve followed the story pretty carefully. I was [...]
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wow! I am reading some great comments on this blog. If you look at an entry- there is a small comments button on the top. If there is a number next to it, there are comments.
I am not able to answer them as I would like. I will try to get to them though! It’s [...]