About this Blog
The purpose of this blog and the accompanying art pieces is to help myself and others find a productive path forward through the haze and maze of the dual illness, Depression/Anxiety. My qualifications to be sharing my ever-evolving management plan for coping with this disease with others rest on the fact that I have been lucky enough to have excellent medical insurance. My insurance has given me unfettered access to top-notch mental health professionals and the latest techniques being used to help people with our disease. Because I have been so fortunate in this regard, I feel a strong desire — and need — to share what I have learned. In sharing, I help to reinforce my own understanding, as well as providing insights that will hopefully help others as much as they have has helped me.
The Blog in Book Form
In order to make the contents of this blog more easily available, both to my fellow sufferers as well as to those professionals and lay people, including family members, who are concerned about how people can deal with chronic Depression/Anxiety, I have made it available in book form, both as an e-book, as well as in a printed version. You can order either or both versions by using the links below.
Recent Posts
Each blog post has an accompanying piece of original art. These pieces of my art are meant to be a my visual interpretation of the emotions I am expressing in the blog post.
Blog Post Categories
12 Steps | Addictions | Anti-Depressives & Effects | Anxiety | Depression
Electro Shock Treatment | Holidays | Medical Care | Phobias | Suicide
Finally about the Dog
I decided that my life had no real structure, and this was leading me to act in a way (letting my…
The Dog Has to Wait
I thought I would write a blog entry today about the benefits of pets for those of us who get…
Acknowledging the Disease in Your Gut
I am always trying to prove to myself that I am okay or to validate that I am a flawed person…
Between Two Worlds
I am going back on my anti-depression medication after getting a perfect score on the…
Be Good to Yourself
As I write this, I am having a hard time imagining how being good to myself would look. My status…
Accepting Powerlessness
I feel like I have been brought to my knees by my anxiety/depression. I feel like I am truly powerless…
Angels to the Rescue
When I get so consumed with anxiety, the anxiety state becomes my reality. A relative was…
Using the Serenity Prayer to Find Reality
This morning, I woke up and felt like I did not want to move. My husband took the car, because…
Doing Amazing Things and Then Crashing
In my last post (from two months ago, which I just reread), I was sailing through life having…
How Easy It Is Trigger Depression/Anxiety – The D/A Instruction Book
As I mentioned in my last post, I am being genetically tested for future cancers. I have already…
How Depression/Anxiety Has a Life of Its Own
Rationally, I realize that I have a physical disease like heart disease. I can imagine that people…
Jet Lag and Depression/Anxiety
I am in Europe for both business and pleasure for a few weeks. I arrived in Berlin yesterday…
How to Help a Friend in Need...
An old dear friend has had a relapse of his prostate cancer this fall, and there are no further…
Too Many People and Too Much Going On... Turning the Voice Off that Says I Can’t Handle It
As the holidays approach, I am freaking out. It is not about anything in particular, but just all the…
Managing the Details of Everyday Life in a Timely Manner
It is fall, and I am just now focusing on chores from the summer. I have a fabulous gate and fence…
The New Door is Opening...
I am in the midst of a life changing event — retirement (or as one friend put it ” the beginning…
Meditation as a Tool to Combat Depression/Anxiety
My mind/thought process is naturally set to “Google” search. Or to put it another way, I can spend…
Taking Your Depression Pulse
One of the things that I find the most helpful is to take a reading of my depression/anxiety…
