Maybe my portrait is at odds with the list of symptoms. Maybe not. Mostly been feeling irritable. Sick of being irritable. Sick of having to warn my husband that I’m in a bad mood. Ready for menopause. Ready for this…
How long does perimenopause last, anyway? I, for one, am sick of it. Tomorrow! NIMH Twitter Chat on Perimenopausal Depression – May 13 05/12/2015 While transitioning into menopause, women experience various physical, psychological, and social changes that may affect their…
So, it is May – Mental Health Awareness Month, and I’m not motivated to write about mental health. Not mine, at least. Instead, I find myself drawn to write about parenting a son who has suffered severe migraines since he was…
Nicole Lyons of The Lithium Chronicles featured me today on her blog. This May, for Mental Health Awareness Month, she is featuring Mental Health Warriors on her site. Thank you, Nicole, for including me as a Mental Health Warrior. I’m…
I love lazily copying and pasting content I’ve written elsewhere and repurposing it as a blog post. Once again, I post my answers to Marya Hornbacher‘s follow-up survey questions about whether I see mental illness as a physical disease: Do you consider…
Thoughts intrude Throw plate in sink Let it shatter loudly I see myself doing it The image, the impulse is there There – in my mind No! I respond Turn left NOW in front of oncoming traffic No! No! No! Don’t…
My son has suffered migraines since he was at least two years old. I would regularly get phone calls from daycare to pick him up because he was sick again. We did not know what was happening. We thought that…
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