No matter how well trained your doctors are, it's really complicated to keep our meds in sync and our bodies functioning well. And so there are times when our body gets out of whack and the doctors - whether p-docs, GPs, or that helpful Ask-A-Nurse at your insurance - are likely to not have the best solution for you. Here are a few I've... Read more
Friends, this is just to encourage you to tell your story whenever and wherever you get a chance.
One of my girlfriends, a breast cancer survivor, has a website about how people's faith helps them get through serious illness. She asked me to tell my story. So -- as LadyBehindTheMask -- I did.
Then she entered a contest and ended... Read more
So someone decides Sarah Palin needs clothes and sends someone shopping ... and they come back with more than $150,000 worth??? Can you spell manic binge??? And if her boss approved it, that makes two!
The last few weeks have been very difficult. I'm swinging down, which has been hard enough. It almost seemed like it was easier to manage the depressions before I was treated, when I was almost always depressed and so I just got used to working through them. (Brief aside: a really helpful book is Working in the Dark: Keeping Your Job While... Read more
Congress has passed and we're waiting for the President to sign amendments to the ADA of 1990. The amendments have considerable promise for people with mental illnesses, as well as people with epilepsy and other conditions which are episodic and usually successfully treated with medications. At the same time, it seems likely that it will take a... Read more
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