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Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | February 26, 2010

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Gabriel...

By the time I got to my psychiatrist’s office I had been overdosing on Extra Strength Tylenol and ES Advil, as well as taking large doses of penicillin, for five days, and living with the pain of an abscessed tooth … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Bud, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Granny, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Psychiatry | 5 Comments

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | February 12, 2010

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Gabriel...

My recovery has reached a strange place… I did spend most of last year depressed, but that was mostly due to the panic and lack of sleep stemming from my girlfriend’s high-risk pregnancy. But I haven’t had a bipolar episode … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Disability, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Pregnancy, Psychiatry | 8 Comments

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | January 22, 2010

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Gabriel...

I didn’t stop writing these, I just renamed them “pregnancy updates”. I’ve been writing lately about how my “recovery” suffered in many different ways while I spent nine months dealing with my girlfriend’s “high risk” pregnancy. One of the less … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, CSG, Diabetes, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Psychiatry | 2 Comments

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | June 12, 2009

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Gabriel...

This was my first appointment after telling my parents about my girlfriend being pregnant. It was not a good ten days. There is a level of passive aggression in my family that is unrivalled. When I first told my mother … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Pregnancy, Psychiatry | 9 Comments

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | April 3, 2009

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Gabriel...

My doctor and I rarely start with the heavy stuff straight away. Actually, after I walk into his office and we shake hands, our routine consists of my weighing myself on his gravity scale, then I sit down and straighten … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, CSG, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Psychiatry | 12 Comments

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | January 9, 2009

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Gabriel...

There’s a certain rhythm to our appointments which gets broken after we’ve had a break. Even missing one appointment throws our timing off and we end up spending the first forty-five minutes catching up and talking about stuff we’re both … Continue reading →

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Manic Depression, Psychiatry | 7 Comments