Category Archives: Living With Manic Depression

Looking Forward To An Intervention Any Day Now

There are so many days when all I want is to open my door and have family and friends sitting around my apartment with concerned looks on their faces and as they come towards me with their arms wide open … Continue reading

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No Post Day: All-Time Stats

The wrong way to signal a lane change — photo by Me . “Pretend We’re Dead”; L7 Let me know if the YouTube isn’t available. . . WordPress is spending some time towards improving their stats features… eventually they’ll be … Continue reading

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Got Lithium? Research Says It Reduces Suicide, Inhibits Herpes And Boosts The Brains Grey Matter So Why Isn’t It The First Thing We’re Prescribed?

“The product, originally named “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda”, was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. It was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday To Me Happy Birthday To Me 13,879 And A Half Days Old But I Don’t Look A Minute Over 10,953

“I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”; Tom Waits Let me know if the YouTube isn’t available. . . . At some point today I will have been outside my mothers womb for exactly thirty-eight years. I’ve always had a weird relationship … Continue reading

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Looking Back The Only Things I Gave Up Were A Million Cockroaches And The Idea Manic Depression Ever Meant Something To My Self

“Depression is a thin coating, it’s a thin sheet of reflective ice concealing an ocean. It corrupts our ability to Reason, and without that ability we can’t defend ourselves against the thoughts inside our heads, so we find excuses we … Continue reading

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No Post Day: The God Machine

Me stalking the bunny… — photo by Mom . “House Of The Rising Sun”; The Animals Let me know if the YouTube isn’t available. . . The thing about No Post Days I love most is also it’s greatest curse… … Continue reading

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