Category Archives: Bipolar Disorder

Cue The Orchestra Because My Core Issue Has Finally Taken The Stage Dun Dun Duuun

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Gabriel...

“[I]t’s something I’m just starting to work out myself, but the manic depression actually feels or seems in retrospect as though it was much easier in comparison to deal with. Maybe it has to do with the bipolar depressions being … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Father, Health, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Poverty, Psychiatry, Salted Truths | 10 Comments

Eating Steak On A Sawdust Budget

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Gabriel...

“For the second time this year I have burned through my disability cheque before the second week of the month, so for the next sixteen days I’ll be eating 0.19 cent packages of monosodium glutamate and wondering where the food … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Granny, Health, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Poverty | 10 Comments

The First Post Marking The End Of My Second Year

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Gabriel...

The second year of Salted Lithium ends on November 14, 2008. This post is part one in a series looking back at the last two years. The idea of these Anniversary Posts is to encourage people to hopefully take part … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Father, Health, Manic Depression, Salted Truths, Second Salted Anniversary | 16 Comments

How Growing Up With Wire Monkeys Added To My Self Destructive Behaviour

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Gabriel...

“The theory of learned helplessness was then extended to human behavior, providing a model for explaining depression, a state characterized by a lack of affect and feeling. Depressed people became that way because they learned to be helpless. Depressed people … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Classic, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Diabetes, Family, Father, Granny, Health, Manic Depression, Poverty, Salted Truths | 17 Comments

Still Self Destructing After All These Years

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Gabriel...

For the second time this year I have burned through my disability cheque before the second week of the month, so for the next sixteen days I’ll be eating 0.19 cent packages of monosodium glutamate and wondering where the food … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, ODSP, Poverty, Salted Truths | 24 Comments

No Post Day | Famous First Words

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Gabriel...

A friend of my family died on Thursday. He was a local psychiatrist and artist who helped a lot of people and did a lot of adventurous things in his life. He would’ve been 91 next week. His family is … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Health, No Post Day | 16 Comments