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Sober Songs
I wasn’t prepared to be split in two. I didn’t expect the irritability and anger “You want to do what? You announced that you want to be sober? What did you go and do that for?” It was nearing our dinner time, and I’d already made it past 4:30, when I usually have my first…
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I Found a Gem
I was searching Youtube for Natasha Tracy’s videos and came across the podcast “Wellbeing with Jack Hodgins” which delves into topics on physical and mental health. There are several podcasts on bipolar, and I listened to two of them today; Natasha Tracy’s, and Terri Cheney’s. I found them both very informative and relatable. Teri Cheney…
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What a Fool Believes
I have been fooling myself. Even though I write a blog about bipolar, read memoirs about bipolar, take my medicine daily, I still sometimes question if I have bipolar all that much. What does that even mean? I think I’m not as bad off as other people. I have recently come across the concept that…
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Lemonade and ECT
“His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.” That’s one of my favorite lines from Augusten Burroughs memoir, Dry. It put me in a place of lazy summer days, just like the one I was having today, where I could spend as much time as I wished reading. Burroughs calls his book a memoir,…
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Hidden Letter
Hide and Seek! I’m looking for you, but you are very hard to find. You’re folded up somewhere, waiting to be discovered. Three lined notebook papers, hand written. I just want to see your words, since I will never see you again. You were right you know, all those years ago, that wasn’t the best…
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Bipolar Childhood
Terri Cheney, the author of Manic, wrote a second book, the dark side of innocence, about what it was like to grow up bipolar. After she wrote Manic, Cheney received many emails from parents with questions about what her childhood was like, at what age her symptoms started, and what it was like to be…
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Letting Go: Autism
I am letting go of a gathering of like minds, a group that I created eighteen years ago. A place where people with autism and their loved ones could gather for friendship, solidarity, comfort, compassion and lots of fun. It started out as a question, and a search for others who may have the answer,…
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Days of Summer
I am not one to brag about how balanced my life is, because it just isn’t. I work hard, but I don’t play hard; I tend to lounge on the couch with the shades drawn and read all day. I am very gifted at resting. I can do this for many days in a row,…
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Kiss Your Brain
I’m so proud of my bipolar brain! Today we had some important people coming to observe our classroom and the lead teacher hadn’t yet settled on what she would do for a lesson. She’s watched me use a curriculum about social emotional learning with the kids for fun, just exposing them to the books and…
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Bloom Where?
My principal and I signed all the necessary paperwork for me to be in special education with 3-5 year olds. Now it goes to the district to approve. But wait! Of course it couldn’t be that simple, not in my school district! Word got out that something strange is happening with teacher aides across the…
Moody Paper 