Category Archives: Health

If Building A Community Were A Chinese Buffet These Blogs Would Be The Pieces Of General Tao’s Chicken On My Steamed Rice

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Gabriel...

“The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Being separate means being cut off, without any capacity to use my human powers. Hence to be separate means to be helpless, unable to grasp the … Continue reading →

Posted in crazy people with no pants, Depression, General Tao's Chicken, Health, Intervention, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression | 9 Comments

My Favourite Twenty-Five Movies Because Ten Would Be Stupid And Thirty Would Be Fucking Annoying Part Two

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Gabriel...

“A list poem is one of the easiest kinds of poems to write because it doesn’t require either rhythm or rhyme. But that doesn’t mean you should write down anything helter skelter. Here’s a list of elements that makes a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Health, Lithium, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Punk, Salted Lists | 21 Comments

UmBiPMaD Stories: Fred Nietzsche Was My 240lb Solvent-Huffing Ex-Nazi Rooming-House Neighbour And Friend

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gabriel...

To predict the behaviour of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German Philosopher Dave killed my rabbit. Fred … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Canada, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Ottawa, Poverty, Punk, UmBiPMaD Stories | 8 Comments

A Lying Maoist Revolutionary Con Artist Stole My Family And All He Left Me With Was A Crappy Bike

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Gabriel...

In a hut of mud and fire / Sits this single man — “Not to want / Money, to want a life in the world, / To want no trinkets on my name” — / And he was rich; his … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Father, Health, Lithium, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Poverty, Punk, Salted Truths | 22 Comments

God Save The Queen, Because I Was Too Broken To Do The Job

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Gabriel...

Elephants // aren’t any more important / than insects // but I’m on the side / of elephants // unless one of them tries / to crawl up my leg “Elephants”, John Newlove Young man, / Seize every minute / … Continue reading →

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

Ten Things I Did Last Year, Eight Things I’ve Stopped Doing This Year, Three Revelations And A Ten-Year Old Holding A Gun

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Gabriel...

The reason I write / is to make something / as beautiful as you are. / When I’m with you / I want to be the kind of hero / I wanted to be / when I was seven years … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, crazy people with no pants, Health, Humour, Lithium, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Memories, Mental Health, Salted Lists | 36 Comments