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
In the Moment in December
Anxiety is a constant companion in my life today. I live with it all day and dream anxious…
Today is an anxietying day…
There are always things to point to in a given day or days that worsen anxiety. I tend to…
Alien for a Day
Between the holidays, my worry about my own family’s health and the fact that a person who…
Mother’s Day
I have wondered over the years whether and how my depression/anxiety has effected my…
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…
It is almost Christmas…YIKES
I always get through Thanksgivings without much emotion, but when it comes to Christmas…
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…
MONEY, HOLIDAY STYLE: DEPRESSION/ANXIETY
The December Holidays is the perfect excuse to spend money you can not afford to spend…
St. Patrick Day – The Dark Side
Someone I love is dying. My heart is breaking. From what I hear, he is much diminished given…
Depression/Anxiety during the Holidays
It is January 11, and I am just coming down from the holidays. I had a lot of fun seeing my family…
