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Meds, Part One: An Overview
I am a walking cocktail of medication and have been since I was diagnosed with depression. One by one pills have been added and subtracted to balance out my brain, some making me physically sick, some...
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The Brave New World of Medication
I’m not going to lie: I’m swamped in getting ready for my craft show this weekend and have not written a new post. While I hope to be a Speedy Gonzales-esque writer one of these days and write ten...
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A Plea to Doctors and Patients
I just turned off a rerun of House on tv and it got me thinking about the dramas we watch on tv, especially the medical dramas. Why do we watch these shows? The storylines are interesting, love between...
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We Aren’t Broken
We can FEEL broken, flawed, or even crazy but it does not mean that we ARE those things. For a while there I felt like the diagnosis of being mentally ill meant that there was something wrong with ME....
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I Miss You
I must admit that things are pretty crappy right now. I can count my current woes on my fingers but I still feel some secret hope that I can’t quite identify. Perhaps it is spring. Today we’re back...
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Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
I’m finally ready to write about this. You know how I’ve talked about there being an infinite amount of rock bottoms, at least in my life? During my last hospital stay, I ended up in the Psychiatric...
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An Untimely Good-Bye
In mid-July, my psychiatrist broke bad news to me like a bad joke: “So, did you talk to your family doctor yet?” “….About what?” “Getting a new psychiatrist.” “WHAT!?” This is not the way to tell your...
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The Sick & The Well
Little is more important to a writer than hearing someone say, “I read your work.” Today, four separate people came up to me to praise my blog, my writing, my truth. With each comment I felt like I was...
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Packing for the Hospital
You’re in crisis and decide that you need to go to the hospital. So what do you take with you? In this post, I’m going to give you a few tips and then a few lists that should help you with packing. :)...
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Expression Kills Depression
I am so unbelievably depressed. I feel like the gum permanently glued to the sidewalk by its own inability to move itself. The sun burned my colour away as thousands slowly stepped on me one at a time,...
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Systems Improvement Through Service Collaboratives: My Two-Day Conference...
I just returned home from a whirlwind trip into Toronto to attend the Centre of Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH)’s knowledge exchange event on Systems Improvement Through Service Collaboratives...
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Planting Roots & Speaking Up: Your Story Matters
The first time volunteered at mindyourmind office four years ago, involved me and some other volunteers playing the Reach Out game, where mental health questions are asked in a Jeopardy-style layout....
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I just turned off a rerun of House on tv and it got me thinking about the dramas we watch on tv, especially the medical dramas. Why do we watch these shows? The storylines are interesting, love between...
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We Aren’t Broken
We can FEEL broken, flawed, or even crazy but it does not mean that we ARE those things. For a while there I felt like the diagnosis of being mentally ill meant that there was something wrong with ME....
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