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
Imaginary Thinking
When one is three you use imaginary thinking to understand the world. If something bad…
Am I Ok or Not
I am in a situation where on any objective scale the world would say I am a loving, caring…
Manic to Forstall Depression/Anxiety
December/January are dangerous months for me. It is an iconic period that interweaves…
Merging
Right now I am not doing well. So it is back to the basics If I think of depression as an illness, I can…
Randomness
Depression/Anxiety is a random disease. It is frightening because in reality I have done nothing…
Sleep
I am having a depression related sleep problem. I fall asleep easily around ten but wake up…
Shame/Guilt before Trauma
I am in a traumatic situation. I have a sick newborn granddaughter who has been in the ICU…
The Line between Life and Death
Life and Death are relative terms. Life/death can be about physical or mental death. In my case…
Depression-Where Are You?
The confusing and hard part about having the disease of depression/anxiety is to understand…
Trying to Find the Moment
Right now I feel like I am not at the right point in the 60 seconds that makes up a minute…
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…
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…
