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
Finding a Calling for the New Year
Being depressed is like a calling…it takes so much time to deal with it to keep yourself…
Desperation: Where Is It Hiding
In my head my sense of desperation can get very loud or it can quietly sneak up on me. Sometimes…
Detox – Shame and Blame of Mental Illness part 2
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if one could control when and if one has a mental illness? The sense…
Becoming your own Loving Parent
Depression and Anxiety often first reveal themselves to children who live in highly dysfunctional…
The Empty Hole
While there is lots of color and activity around my empty hole in the middle of my psyche, why do…
Is it Depression or Shyness?
I am the type of person that appears cheerful and talkative in a social situation once I am in it. The hard part…
Here I Go Again
I have hidden this blog in the biosphere, not using my real name. If you did not know about it from…
Detox from the Shame and Blame of Mental Illness part 1
I have family members who spent a lifetime being depressed and using alcohol to kill the pain…
Making a Choice Every Morning
When I wake up I sometimes get on my iPad to see if I have any emails and then look around…
Stomach flu in a hotel room
I am lying on my bed in a hotel room on the east coast with the stomach flu. This is the type…
“Brain Fever”
I recently did some psychological work on an old medical trauma. Since this was the medical trauma…
Cry It Away, Baby
Last week, I was putting my granddaughter to sleep, and she cried inconsolably for over an hour…
The Depression Bubble – How To Burst It?
Depression and Anxiety makes me feel like I am living in a “bubble”. Those looking at me do not…
What I Do All Day
I woke up this morning wondering what I had done for the last three months beyond being very anxious…
How Anxiety Works for Me
The textbook case of how anxiety works for me happens when I have an appointment…
Change of Circumstance – Opening the Door
The Depression/Anxiety disease I have has been passed down through the generations…
Other People
I live with another person. Dealing with this person on a daily basis confuses me with regard…
How to Relate to Adult Children?
I am a mother. How can I relate to my adult child when I am suffering from Depression/Anxiety…
