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
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PDSD
My granddaughter was given another operation on August 20th to connect her heart and lungs…
Seeing
Last month I dipped into a depression as I was changing around my meds. What is important…
Side Effects Again
The current drug I am taking is Wellbutrin. When I started it early this year it was such a relief…
Finally, enough of the right medicine
What a ride I have been on for the last four months . . . 3 anti-depressives that made me either…
Lexapro withdrawal
When you start taking anti depression medicines they tell you to withdraw slowly. When I initially…
Medication Changes . . . Yuh, Right!
About a month ago, I was beginning to change medications. Take a new pill and eliminate an old pill…
Medication – Good or Evil
I have been off anti-depressants and strong anxiety medication for almost 4 weeks. It was not my…
Life between Medications
It is the middle of the night in Amsterdam, where I am visiting my family. I am still away…
Changing Medications for Depression/Anxiety – Brave Souls
Changing depression meds is one of the toughest and most miserable medical pain (or, rather…
