Posts Tagged ‘mental-health’
It has been a while. It has been a time. What a time. It’s hard for me to say where I have been. I don’t want to say where I’ve been, but I can give you a glimpse. If the flow of this talk (can we call it that?) seems out of order it’s […]
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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, children, dad, darkness, depression, despair, drugs, family, father, guilt, Health, kids, lao tzu, love, medication, mental illness, mental-health, mood disorder, Parent, parenting, Sleep, Taxi Taxi!, Thanks
Blog For Mental Health 2013
I pledge my commitment to the Blog For Mental Health 2013 Project. I will blog about mental health topics not only for myself, but for others. By displaying this badge, I show my pride, dedication, and acceptance for mental health. I use this to promote mental health education in the struggle to erase stigma. Check out: Blog […]
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Building a Moment
Today, I want to build something, and I hope I can take you with me. I’m not manic or even hypomanic, but rather, I feel like I just took my first breath of free air since this long depression has been holding me down. I want to build something now. A mood. A thought. And […]
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Tags: Compassion, healing, Health, let go, love, mental-health, mindfulness, moment, mood, peace, Pema Chödrön, Snuggle, writing
One day a young man heading home came to a wide and wild river. He stared and stared and stared, wondering how he was going to get across. It was impossible. Just as he was about to give up and turn back he saw someone on the other side of the river. The young man […]
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Tags: Australia, bias, Bipolar disorder, experience, Health, mental-health, mood, mood disorder, parallax, Perth, story
Never Stop Fighting
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more” – Shakespeare, Henry V Act 3, scene 1 Once, and many more times. For people with mood disorders: What battle do we wage? What foe do we face? What are we armed with? Will we win? What Battle do we wage? What foe do we face? […]
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Tags: battle, Bipolar disorder, depression, E. E. Cummings, fight, Health, media, Mental disorder, mental-health, mood disorder, paradox, peace, Poe, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, shame, Social stigma, stigma, Thank you, win, writing
What is love? Baby . . .
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns Over the holiday season, we are all bound to see some extended family at some point. This class of relatives is definitely a source for stress for everyone, good or bad. I can say, as a dad, as a person with […]
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Tags: anxiety, Buddha, Christmas, expectations, family, George Burns, Holidays, love, Margaret Mead, mental-health, Opinions, Robert Frost, sontag
I’m Not OK
What do you say when someone asks “How are you?” Almost everyone replies ‘good’, or maybe ‘fine’ and then asks the same question in return as though it were a solemn obligation. This is the social protocol we all play a role in. It is a greeting that puts everyone at the same point in […]
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Tags: drowning, Frank Warren, honesty, how are you, mental-health, my chemical romance, Not OK, OK, post secret, RUOK, RUOKDay, social protocol
Merry Medication
So . . . I’ve been blogging for some time now about mental health and parenting and I’ve never really addressed the issue of medication, and while I’m not afraid to talk about it, I’m not sure that I am the best voice to speak for or against the use of all the different drugs out there. I […]
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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, expectations, medication, meds, mental, mental illness, mental-health, mood disorder
Not Coming Out . . . Not yet
To tell or not to tell. I was reading a great blog from Disorderly Chickadee (http://wp.me/p26KTD-H0) about coming out with a mood disorder at work. It was amazing and I suggest you give it a read. I especially like how she draws the parallel between coming out gay, and coming out bipolar – both states carry a stigma […]
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Tags: Benjamin Disraeli, bipolar, bipolar II, career, coming out, depression, despair, desperation, Henry David Thoreau, hiding, inspiration, job, judgement, mental, mental illness, mental-health, mood disorder, secret
The headline for this post is from some picture I saw somewhere out there on the wild, wild, web. It’s true though – hence the frustration. I myself have felt my mood swoop lower and lower in a matter of moments, and within a very short period of time I have found myself frozen in […]
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Tags: Bipolar disorder, Carl Jung, confusion, depression, frustration, manic, mental-health, mood, mood disorder, shadow, trigger
Bipolar 2 Dad 