[Unedited]Major depressives can skip to the part about SSRIs. IMPORTANT: I am not a medical professional and any and all of my content does not intend to replace the advice of your physician. Why am I sharing this very personal and intimate post? Simple: to let other people in the same boat know they’re not […]
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So… depression. It’s kak. This is probably the mot difficult post I have written. I never exaggerate. Not so much that it is so personal I have to replace my keyboard for the tears streaming down my face, but more so because life is hard. It’s so very, very hard. And I mean that in […]
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If I’m truly honest with myself the fear of happiness is something I’ve always lived with. Later I’ll get to why I feel it’s more pronounced, and nuanced, with a bipolar diagnosis. The fear of happiness. It sounds like some post-modern ailment of the rich and famous. I can assure you, dear reader, that while […]
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This lock-down has not had the effect I thought it would. For the most part I’ve been coping well, very well even. Psychiatrist agrees he’s never seen me better and can also say the same for many of his other patients. Of course this got me thinking: why have many bipolar folk and others with […]
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I knew this day would come: writing about bipolar depression during bipolar depression. Everything is hard. That’s it. That’s all I have. Tomorrow will be better.
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