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
Making a Choice Every Morning
When I wake up I sometimes get on my iPad to see if I have any emails and then look around…
St. Patrick Day – The Dark Side
Someone I love is dying. My heart is breaking. From what I hear, he is much diminished given…
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…
Stomach flu in a hotel room
I am lying on my bed in a hotel room on the east coast with the stomach flu. This is the type…
“Brain Fever”
I recently did some psychological work on an old medical trauma. Since this was the medical trauma…
Lexapro withdrawal
When you start taking anti depression medicines they tell you to withdraw slowly. When I initially…
Cry It Away, Baby
Last week, I was putting my granddaughter to sleep, and she cried inconsolably for over an hour…
Medication Changes . . . Yuh, Right!
About a month ago, I was beginning to change medications. Take a new pill and eliminate an old pill…
The Depression Bubble – How To Burst It?
Depression and Anxiety makes me feel like I am living in a “bubble”. Those looking at me do not…
Post-Traumatic Syndrome – Shock
My husband could have died, but was saved by coronary bypass surgery seven weeks ago…
Still Working on Flying Solo
It is difficult to imagine being alone and living a productive independent life. The thought…
Flying Solo
Each morning, I visualize that I am a separate person from those around me. The difficulty…
What I Do All Day
I woke up this morning wondering what I had done for the last three months beyond being very anxious…
How Anxiety Works for Me
The textbook case of how anxiety works for me happens when I have an appointment…
Change of Circumstance – Opening the Door
The Depression/Anxiety disease I have has been passed down through the generations…
When Shit Happens and Keeps Coming
In my last post, I was lamenting that my PTSS symptoms had returned, because my grandchild…
Other People
I live with another person. Dealing with this person on a daily basis confuses me with regard…
How to Relate to Adult Children?
I am a mother. How can I relate to my adult child when I am suffering from Depression/Anxiety…
