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
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…
Sugar Is After Me
It’s Christmas (Holiday) season, and I just could not stop myself from making fudge…
It is almost Christmas…YIKES
I always get through Thanksgivings without much emotion, but when it comes to Christmas…
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…
MONEY, HOLIDAY STYLE: DEPRESSION/ANXIETY
The December Holidays is the perfect excuse to spend money you can not afford to spend…
Side Effects Again
The current drug I am taking is Wellbutrin. When I started it early this year it was such a relief…
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…
Money – Power and Safety?
My greatest fear throughout my life has been not having enough money which I had control over…
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…
Death is Confusing
I just saw someone I love take his last breath and die. I feel confused about how to feel and view…
Update on Dealing with Death
It has been a month and a half since my loved one died. In my last post, I talked about things…
