Depression is a Physical Illness
A quandry for any writer, not just a blogger, arises at those times when to tell your story means to risk betraying a confidence, either that of a loved one … Read More The post Depression is a...
View ArticleThoughts from the Front Lines of Depression
As a long-time sufferer with depression, I can unreservedly say that helping care for a loved one in acute depression challenges everything you know and have come to understand and … Read More The post...
View ArticleFatigue and Invisible Illness
There are many types of fatigue, some of which are unknown to those who have never experienced a chronic invisible illness. The first kind is the result of physical exertion, … Read More The post...
View Article(Not) Identifying With Being A Sick Person
As strange as it may sound, approaching my 23rd anniversary of being a sick person (I remember it well – the food poisoning, giardia or whatever it was that triggered … Read More The post (Not)...
View ArticleEmotions and Chronic Illness
I’m taking part in WEGO Health’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge Day 1 #HAWMC – Why you write – tell us a little bit about why you write about your … Read More The post Emotions and Chronic...
View ArticleTo My Future Self
I’m taking part in WEGO Health’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge Day 6 #HAWMC – Write a letter to an older you (tell us what age you’re writing to!). What … Read More The post To My Future...
View ArticleWatermark
A watermark is an outline of the tide’s advance and retreat. In some ways I feel like I am part of that outline, lying at low ebb, among the beautiful … Read More The post Watermark appeared first on...
View ArticleGrasping for Answers
I have mentally begun this post for weeks, but a chronically ill life has a way of shaking loose any idea of control over one’s destiny. Anyone who has been … Read More The post Grasping for Answers...
View ArticleTaking Stock of Depression
I didn’t want to be here right now. After a year and a half of hell of dealing with a mental illness that wasn’t my own and dealing with the … Read More The post Taking Stock of Depression appeared...
View ArticleGifts
Even as my world shrank over the years, it was enriched in many ways through the social networks I developed online. The impact of those social networks on my quality … Read More The post Gifts...
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