Category Archives: Living With Depression

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

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

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

Manic Depression Did Not Rape You And It Certainly Didn’t Kill Your Dog

…Call it what you like, / that nightly jaunt I took, analyze it / as you will, there must have been / some benefit I gained from it — otherwise / I’d have come down long ago. “Only Child”, ‘Edwin … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Classic, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | 33 Comments

I Still Need This Thing.

Blood may be thicker than water, but you can still drown in it. “Can’t you see I’m busy gettin’ high?”. Bystander Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Salted Lithium is coming back… I still need this thing… because I’m not sane … Continue reading →

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Just Something Funny I Wrote While Living On My Little Brothers Couch (1993)

. . “There is no fucking ice cream in your fucking future.” Otis Driftwood, The Devils Rejects . . this was less than two minutes of ‘manic’: . “If we could all erase the colour of our skin we would … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Depression, Bipolar, Canada, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Humor, Humour, Lithium, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Memories, Ottawa, Poetry, Poverty, Punk, [redacted] | 8 Comments

This One’s For St. Michael And All The Memories In The Backrow

The Main Street of my little village; February 10, 2007 – Photo by Me. The first cut is the deepest, Baby I know — The first cut is the deepest ‘Cause when it comes to being lucky, she’s cursed When … Continue reading →

Posted in Bipolar, crazy people with no pants, Depression, General Tao's Chicken, Health, Lithium, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Memories, Ottawa, Poetry, Poverty, Publishing, Punk, [redacted] | 5 Comments