Category Archives: crazy people with no pants

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

Plans For My Blogging Anniversary And Someone Looking For Absolutely Nothing Finds My Blog

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Gabriel...

My second blogging anniversary is in November so my plan is to repost one of my favourite pieces once a week, probably on Friday’s, until the actual anniversary. But not wholesale, the Super Special Second Salted Anniversary posts will have … Continue reading →

Posted in crazy people with no pants, Health, Second Salted Anniversary, WordPress | 15 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

We Should Probably Keep Meeting Like This

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Gabriel...

I met some bloggers for brunch in Ottawa recently. This is the second time I’ve met people face-to-face who only know me through this blog, which is something I didn’t think I’d ever do again. I mostly went because I … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Blogging, crazy people with no pants, Health, Salted Truths | 15 Comments