Category Archives: Clinical Depression

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | April 3, 2009

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Gabriel...

My doctor and I rarely start with the heavy stuff straight away. Actually, after I walk into his office and we shake hands, our routine consists of my weighing myself on his gravity scale, then I sit down and straighten … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, CSG, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Psychiatry | 12 Comments

My Second Date With CSG And We’ve Become Grease For The Village Gossip Machine

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Gabriel...

One more disadvantage to living in a small, rural village is you can’t buy decent flowers after five o’clock. Convenience Store Girl and I had our second official date on Friday night. After CSG finished work we drove into Ottawa … Continue reading →

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

Old Post Day | In Search Of An Intervention

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Gabriel...

I was untreated for eighteen years… for some of them I was homeless, for almost all of them I was surviving on two dollars a day. What I was capable of was making an appointment and, eventually, getting to an … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Old Post Day | 3 Comments

Old Post Day | Looking For Tall Bridges

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Gabriel...

This selection for “Old Post Day” was about the role suicide fantasies play in our lives. I wrote it back in 2006, about a week after starting Salted. I was towards the end of a major depression which had brought … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Classic, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Old Post Day | 5 Comments

Some New Things About My Blog

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Gabriel...

Just a quick post to say I’ve added a few things to my blog. The first thing is a new feature WordPress released a few days ago called ‘threaded comments’… basically people can now respond directly to a comment by … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Blogging, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression | 7 Comments

Old Post Day | Breaking Up With Manic Depression

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Gabriel...

The basic problem with blogs is the more you write, the more gets left behind in the archives. So a few times a month I’m going to leave excerpts from my original posts which I think can really help people … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Lithium, Old Post Day | 5 Comments