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Reprieve
I’m enjoying a few days of normal. This is so rare, I haven’t wanted to stop long enough to document it. I’m too busy cleaning my Mom’s house; attending my post-hospital support group; sighing in the...
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Riven
Easier now. The tight stranglehold of madness relents to allow rivulets of clarity into a brain tingling like a foot fallen asleep. Circle dance, spiraling to a familiar stop: How much damage to...
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Snapping Out of It
Everyone I know is a little discombobulated. The holidays, the bitter cold—they’ve taken the normal way of things and dumped them, head first, in a snow bank. It helps knowing others are...
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Seekers Find
∞ I’m starting to notice a pattern. Whenever I reach critical mass with my bipolar symptoms and seek additional help, something wonderful happens. Is it the Universe putting things in balance? Do I...
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Stepping Up To Recovery
Ahh. There’s nothing like two weeks in the hospital to perk a person up. As always, the experience of partial hospitalization is a combination of learning and acceptance. Because the program has...
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In The Trenches
The last time I had this much change, pressure, and emotional hoo-haw in my life I ended up getting electroshock. That was then, as they say. This is now. Yesterday I started my job as a Peer Support...
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Nesting
It’s autumn. Time for apple cider and the annual ugly chest cold. Time to put away shorts and see if the crotch in any of my old jeans will embarrass me in public. Time to start work on my Solstice...
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It’s Alive!
♥ I feel a little like Peter Boyle’s monster at the end there. “Who the hell is the idiot screaming?” But, the idiot would also be me (less some of Gene Wilder’s hair), bellowing the news to the...
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Chicory Days
Earlier this week, mixed-state depression settled in like chicory coffee—black, thick, bitter—and I panicked a little over the mental discomfort. Seems like I’ve lost all my stamina—physical and...
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Hedgehog
There comes a point, after being physically and mentally sick for several months, that I can feel choice starting to return. It doesn’t happen all at once, and it’s not always real. I get nudged by...
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