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
Self Compassion
The gift I denied myself this year is Compassion. I feel plenty sorry for myself for…
Alien for a Day
Between the holidays, my worry about my own family’s health and the fact that a person who…
Depression is a Serious and Deadly Illness
First order of business: Since electro-shock treatments (ECT) induces a seizure, all medicines…
It Descends
Saturday I was sitting in a restaurant having a delicious hamburger and out of the blue…
Anxiety Everyday
Every morning I wake up anxious, a sensation in my body of excess tension. I try to…
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…
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…
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…
PDSD
My granddaughter was given another operation on August 20th to connect her heart and lungs…
Humility – A Way Forward
Easter is on Sunday and Lent was the prior six weeks. The Catholic practice (I am alienated…
Seeing
Last month I dipped into a depression as I was changing around my meds. What is important…
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…
