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Happy Holidaze
Marshmallow snowman floats in a dreamy hot chocolate. He looks pretty happy. I wonder if it’s a bit like being in a sauna; somehow you feel it’s good for you, but it’s just getting a little too hot. That’s probably a pretty good way to describe my holidays – not the weather, because it is…
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Stitches Showing by Jenna Lasby
Originally posted on VAGABOND CITY: When I was four, I told everyone that my mother was a stuffed rabbit, but only because my father told me this himself. He is a toymaker, and the night after my mother died, he gave it to me and said this was her now. This was where she had…
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Music Soothes the Soul
I stumbled upon a band on Facebook that really lifts my spirits and speaks to my soul. They are The Brothers Comatose, and today I listened to several of their songs and it brought me much comfort and joy after some sad news. I learned that a blogger I have followed and admire greatly lost…
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Stop Making Art
“Stop Making Art” is the message trickling daily like a babbling brook through my brain. Once in a while it will scream it. I don’t really blame bipolar or medication, I think it’s more of a passive aggressive response to the fact that when I make art, I spread out and make a mess, and…
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Ellen Forney: Bipolar and Creativity
I just stumbled upon this video for the first time, and am super excited to share it. Ellen Forney talks about her diagnosis of Bipolar disorder, her reluctance to take medication for fear that it may dampen her creativity, and her journey to being both stable and creative. Since my brain is spinning a little…
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Cloud Thoughts
Things that came together. I had a car accident and we both thought we had the green light. She was lost in thoughts of a grandchild who had died a few days before, I was wondering about the car behind me that was taking up two lanes. I was looking in my rearview mirror (the…
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Medication Merry-Go-Round
My psychiatrist got my labs back, and my glucose numbers were too high- I am four points away from being diabetic. So I had to change meds. This is my third day on the new medication, and I feel tired and a little bit like a zombie. In the midst of the zombie feeling I…
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Telling Your Boss You’re Bipolar – Part II
In my previous post I wrote about a positive experience I had when telling my boss that I was bipolar. At the time I wasn’t experiencing mood swings and my purpose for disclosing my mental illness was to be of help to a teacher. Today I wanted to talk about a time I told a…
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Telling Your Boss You’re Bipolar – Part I
“And what do you want to have happen by telling me you have bipolar?” This was the question I received from an employer after explaining to her that I had bipolar. I am not telling you my story to provide an example of the best way to convey to someone that you have needs as…
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