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About Gabriel...

...diagnosed with manic depression when I was nineteen, for the next 14-years I lived without treatment or a recovery plan. I've been homeless, one time I graduated college, I've won awards for reporting on Internet privacy issues, and a weekly humour column. In 2002 I finally hit bottom and found help. It's now 2024, and I have a 9-year old son, and a 14-year old son... I’m usually about six feet tall, and I'm pretty sure I screwed up my book deal. I mostly blog at saltedlithium.com....

Then I remembered the answers lay in bagels

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Gabriel...

Just a quick post, with some good news… finally: my blood sugar levels are as close to normal as they have been since 2001. Over the past three days I’ve gotten the numbers down from mid-20’s to eight. I’m so … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Poverty | Tagged | 13 Comments

The Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services hates disabled people

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Gabriel...

CAUTION: This post was written after receiving some very bad… incredibly incorrect information from an ODSP worker who was either very new, or very, very drunk. It turns out things weren’t nearly as bad as he made it out to … Continue reading →

Posted in Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, CSG, Diabetes, Disability, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, ODSP, Poverty | Tagged , | 15 Comments

How Do I Succeed As A Father If My Examples Always Failed Me Spectacularly

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Gabriel...

‘You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Bud, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Father, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | Tagged | 10 Comments

My search to find the capital F in father

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Gabriel...

‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.’ “On Children”, ‘The … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Father, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | Tagged | 3 Comments

Too much and not enough…

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Gabriel...

There’s too much to write about at the moment, which means there’s a backlog in my head… which means when I sit down to write about one thing, three other things get in the way. So, instead of writing about … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | 4 Comments

An update on my foot because I finally took my little piggy’s to the ER

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Gabriel...

“I started [blood-glucose] testing again because I’ve had a pain of varying intensity in my right foot for more than a month now. Surprisingly my plan of doing nothing hasn’t worked, and it has only gotten worse. It’s a burning … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Mental Health, Poverty | 7 Comments