Dec 8, 2014 | Bipolar, Mental Health |
Hypomania? Never heard of it I’m speeding hard, no need to stop for breath, the world outside my eyes a static blur as I captain a mutinous mind through the churning straits of ceaseless internal soliloquy. Who’s got their hand on the tiller? Not me. Earlier this...
Oct 3, 2014 | Bipolar, Mental Health |
I am a person often preoccupied with the past. I have so many questions, the answer to any one of which holds a key to unlocking the present. Unbidden, my mind drifts back to past situations, past events, checking for anything that might fit with what I know now and...
Aug 15, 2014 | Bridging Cultures, Mental Health |
I guess this qualifies as one of those #ThrowbackThursday things I keep seeing floating around social media, but it’s not like me to be on time anyway so… what the hell. Between the ages of twelve and thirteen I discovered being funny made switching...
Aug 14, 2014 | Mental Health |
I heard the news of Robin Williams’ death late on Monday and felt the familiar, hypocritical shock when I learned it was suicide. The same shock that makes people say things like, “But (s)he didn’t look like a stalker/extremist/Conservative.” Hypocritical...
Jul 24, 2014 | Bipolar, Mental Health |
I began this blog to document my discovery of Canada but it has increasingly become a vehicle of self-discovery. The expat experience ignited beacons that guided me ever inward, to search more intensely the inner workings that gave rise to the outer journey. It was...
Jul 16, 2014 | Autobiographical Posts, Bipolar, Mental Health |
“D’you ever worry you’ll have it?” I hesitated. This was something I hadn’t considered until now. “Not really.” I answered blithely. I was fourteen and had just delivered a class presentation on my father’s Manic Depression. ⫷⦁⫸ A few weeks earlier my mother sat me...
