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May.01.2013
I had a dream last night about the woman that roamed the halls. Her hair was a glistening gray with tendrils out of wack. Her glasses were a smooth crimson, non-scratch lenses that smudged when you cleaned them. And, her purple fingernails under the bright black light that is caught inside my head...
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Apr.30.2013
Yesterday in my neighborhood it felt like summer for the first time all year. It was as hot inside as outside. It was as hot in the shade as in the sun. I was dogged by lethargy and depression, and I thought, Oh, no - here we go again.
Of all the weather that I dread, summer is the worst. The heat...
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Apr.11.2013
When I was 13, I became bipolar with psychotic features. Nobody knew. No bells or whistles went off. My father had the same condition, but we dismissed his scary irrational rages as “Daddy has a bad temper.” Just so, my endless misery and dramatic oversensitivity was dismissed as “Debbie’s a...
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Mar.28.2013
First of all, my apologies for being late with this blog, friends. I am being tortured by Lulu Press, and it is taking all my free time. To make a long story short, they are requiring their authors to resubmit EVERYTHING, and for me they are insisting on uploading it in a new format with new rules...
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Mar.25.2013
Jason Arnopp @JasonArnopp (Author, scriptwriter. Doctor Who, Sarah Jane, Friday 13th) is working on a book regarding professional (Fiction) writers and Depression. He asked me to contribute. This is what I had to say...
(note: Cross-posted from my social justice / mental illness /...
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Mar.13.2013
For a long time, people in the general populace have assumed that those plagued by mental illness are dangerous. That attitude has spilled out in books, movies, newspapers, ad nauseum. Almost nobody knew the long proven psychological fact that we are LESS likely to be violent.
Two things have...
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Mar.09.2013
My life as a writer began when I was six. I would write fervently, nothing coherent, just simple sentences. My small range included stories about fictional characters and short journal entries. Writing was my life. It was the way I breathed, the way I coped, and the way I survived my disease and...
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Mar.05.2013
Folks, I am just too overwhelmed with STUFF to post this week. I'll just have to try again next Monday. But meanwhile, here is something I found today that I think will inspire you about the possibilities of recovery.
http://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_seeing_mental_illness.html
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Feb.18.2013
You and I both know this blog is a week late. I apologize. But I just had a little emotional breakdown, and I needed time to recover.
I’ve been intending to write a blog about learning your limits. Now is a good time, because I have just become a perfect object lesson. I ignored my own limits, and...
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Jan.17.2013
I feel I can do no better service with this blog than to list the parts of Obama’s new 23-point plan, in response to the Newtown tragedy, that apply to mental health. This information is copied directly from today’s newsletter from Jessica Cruz, the Executive Director of NAMI California....
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