Category Archives: Living With Manic Depression

Infection Infected Infectious

I started feeling a pain in my throat last weekend. I knew right away it was an infection and wouldn’t get better without treatment, but I thought I’d have a few days until it got really bad. And I was … Continue reading

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Third Date With CSG And The Punks Come To Town For A Wild Meat Party

My girlfriend (CSG) met with legal aid last Thursday morning. She’ll hear back this week, but it looks like she has a lawyer and will be eligible for full funding. It also looks like her soon-to-be-ex-husband (STBEH) is about to … Continue reading

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

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

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Old Post Day | In Search Of An Intervention

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

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Flowers Make CSG Cry And Other Things I Learned On Our First Date

We had our first official date on the weekend. Until now whenever Convenience Store Girl (CSG) and I (I) got together it was either at her store for a few minutes while I paid for my orange juice, or in … Continue reading

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Two Books And An Insane Early Morning Sugar Craving

A few nights ago I woke up from a dream where I had been fighting honeybees while stuffing their honeycomb into my mouth. A few minutes later I was in the kitchen squeezing liquid honey from a bottle on whole … Continue reading

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