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
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…
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…
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…
“Brain Fever”
I recently did some psychological work on an old medical trauma. Since this was the medical trauma…
