Category Archives: Health

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

“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

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

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Still Self Destructing After All These Years

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

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

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We Should Probably Keep Meeting Like This

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

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Unimproved Roads

I recently discovered there’s a road designation in Ontario called “unimproved road”. It basically means a trail wide enough for a car, but barely suitable for a horse-drawn cart or an all-terrain vehicle. I had dinner with my friend Dean … Continue reading

Posted in Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Classic, crazy people with no pants, Friends, Health, Intervention, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Ottawa, Poverty, Salted Truths | 10 Comments