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You Can’t Touch This
It is amazing what comes to light when you are in remission from a major mental health issue that dominated your life. Did you know I have major sensory issues? I didn’t. Until it slowly dawned on me...
View ArticleVehicular Vernacular
Pat and I had the “Is Lucas autistic” conversation the other day. It was immediately following the conversation over Lucas not just using the word “vehicular” correctly, but in a way most adults...
View ArticleI’m Sorry
I’m sorry I don’t write anymore. I’m just waiting for the day where my days aren’t measured by the spoonful. I’m waiting to find the words to explain what the hell is happening to me. I’m not doing...
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13 Vacation Destinations for That Mental Health Retreat You’ve Been Needing
Whether it is psychiatrist ordered, therapist ordered, or even just self-ordered, we all need to get away sometimes. It’s a crazy and stressful world out there, holidays are essential! But where should...
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Mental Health Check Up: Borderline Personality Disorder Checking in for Vitals
Depression – I’m more at a blah state then an active depression state. Though my increased need for sleep might argue this. However that need for sleep might also be the Geodon. Who knows. Rage – I...
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My Mountain: BPD and Stress
See that mountain over there? That mountain is the state of my mental health. At the very top of it sits a cabin called recovery. A cabin I would very much like to live in all my life, or at least...
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How My BPD Effects My Asexuality
I will never, ever say my mental health has any factor in me being asexual, panromantic, or a demi-girl. Just as my sexuality (and crew) doesn’t make me BPD, bipolar, anxious, or any of it. There is no...
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An Invalidating Childhood
This is hard for me to write. Mostly because I fear how my mother will respond. So it’s worth saying I’m not accusing, but instead suggesting a possibility, and it’s effect on my life and mental...
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A Loving Mother
I thought I should balance out the negative of the, what I assume to be hurtful to my mother, news of her having narcissistic traits, and being invalidating in many ways, I would list as many of her...
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When Paper Work Affects A Life: Health Insurance and BPD
As I type this I’m currently withdrawing from Ativan because I ran out. I ran out because a minor paperwork fuck up with welfare caused us to lose our insurance for a month. It’ll be back on May 1,...
View ArticleFive Days, Four Nights
This is going to come out very disjoined and just won’t flow. I’m sorry, but that’s just how I am at this time with this topic. I spent most of the last couple of weeks in July fantasizing about...
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Downward Spiral
I seem to be on a 4 year cycle. At the cusp of the 4 years I spiral downhill fast into a really bad year. Then I claw my way back out of it and have a couple of years of really good mental health and...
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School and Mental Health
I’m way past due on an update, but there just wasn’t much to write about. But I’m sitting here with time to kill, and I actually have something to say. Having taken a good 5-6 years at my education,...
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Dark Place
I’m currently in a very dark place. Money just got super tight. Tighter than it’s been in a very long time and I’m terrified. Plus school is currently kicking my ass. Though my current class is...
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ADHD
So many years ago I suggested to my meds doctor that I might have ADHD. She was willing at the time to medicate me for it, but insurance put up a fight and I just wasn’t up to fighting. Now I have...
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Therapy Update
We’re still in the early getting to know each other phase. But my first impression is holding true. Her office is really cozy and just feels like a safe space. Ruby herself is friend shaped and I feel...
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Do What You Can
This started as a Twitter thread, so you might have seen it there, but I want to expand upon it, and I want to do that here, in long form. Sambam is at that age where it’s fun to do chores that aren’t...
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Executive Dysfunction
This will be a short note but I want to address a common misconception about Executive Dysfunction verses laziness. You’re probably not lazy. Especially if you’re not neurotypical. Executive...
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Stress
It has come to my therapist’s attention that I self create most of my stress and that I need to be taught how to not do that. It’s on the list of things to work on. The list is, uh growing. Anyway, as...
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