I have somehow lost like an entire week. Between celebrating my birthday, freaking out over the idea that 40 is only 2 years away, getting in touch with old friends from high school and hanging out with an old boyfriend, and seeing my therapist again for the first time in several months just to discuss [...]
Staying sane in an INsane world
Category Archives: Crazy Stuff
Facebook doesn't suck so much anymore
What’s with all of the polls and blog posts and status updates about how bad the new Facebook sucks? Look, when you create a website that turns into a worldwide phenomenon with millions of users and you’re laughing your 24 yr old ass off all the way to the bank and stopping to chat with [...]
Living with the crazy label
You know why most people keep their mental health diagnosis a secret? Stigma. Any time you admit to someone that you’ve been diagnosed with a mental illness, you risk being judged and labeled by people who are misinformed and uneducated.
And there will always, ALWAYS, be the assholes who will use it to try and insult [...]
Its like PMS on crack
I was listening to some show on NPR yesterday and the topic was mental health, the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual) which is THE book that decides what’s an official disorder and what’s not. They only update this thing like every 10 years or so and the next one is scheduled to be published in [...]
The Philosophy of Prince
One of the cool things about having a highly intelligent child is that you can have some pretty deep conversations with them about stuff like religion and politics. My Bubba is one of those kids. He’s a lot smarter than I was at his age and he’s definitely more in tune with what’s going on [...]
