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
Suicide
The scariest word for the sufferers of depression and anxiety, is SUICIDE. Why do I sometimes…
Afraid of Being Afraid
I have just experienced true fear. The crisis that ignited this fear is winding down. However, I…
A Hard Hitting Anxiety Attack
Full throttle anxiety attacks are frightening because of the mental and physical feelings…
PDSD
My granddaughter was given another operation on August 20th to connect her heart and lungs…
Megan’s Beautiful Heart
I have a 20 day old granddaughter lying in an Intensive Care Unit just waiting…to be saved or…
Confused
My granddaughter was just born with severe heart problems. I am totally confused about how…
Fleeing
I woke up feeling really anxious. I was having a flight or flight moment. After thinking about…
Propaganda
Any thought can be interpretation in two ways. As a depressive I will generally take the more…
Mother’s Day
I have wondered over the years whether and how my depression/anxiety has effected my…
Sad About Nothing in Particular
I had a great day and as the sun set I started to feel sad. I went over everything that happened…
Anxiety Central
Anxiety, in my case, is a 24-hour affair. I start the day with an ever so slight discomfort…
Seeing is Believing
One of the advantages of my being depressed is the fact that I am constantly monitoring…
My Car was Stolen
While being victimized by a car thief when the car is fully insured is not a financial tragedy…
Humility – A Way Forward
Easter is on Sunday and Lent was the prior six weeks. The Catholic practice (I am alienated…
Traveling in Depression land
I started to meditate and let my imagination land on a scene from a movie. I am the main character…
Seeing
Last month I dipped into a depression as I was changing around my meds. What is important…
A New Year – I am still here!
If I want to continue to exist in 2015, it is helpful if I look at how 2014 worked out. I need…
Looking Back – Three Years of Working My Program
After three years of posting on this site, I decided to read over my posts and to try…
