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Discovering Harm OCD
I’ve just stumbled upon something I’ve never heard of before. I’m sure I mentioned this before, but my first diagnosis was one of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I am fairly certain I was already...
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A Biopsy, Emotional and Otherwise
About a week ago I visited the dermatologist for the first time. I wasn’t really sure what to expect (getting poked with cold metal sticks? A giant skin magnifying glass? Maybe I watch too many science...
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OC87; A Personal Story of Mental Illness
Do you ever find yourself thinking, “man, my life would make a good reality tv show (or) documentary, wouldn’t it be great if people could look at what living with mental illness is actually like?” I...
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Choosing Hurdles
I was over at My Year To Thrive yesterday, a blog written by despitemyself with some pretty rockin’ insights. It seems we have something of a similar background and it really caught my attention that...
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NAMI Walk
Hey folks, So NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is hosting a series of walks across the country. The Seattle area walk is happening Saturday, October 27th at Marina Park in Kirkland (for...
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The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale
Every once in a while I am faced with paperwork concerning my mental health. This has happened with insurance companies, state programs I have applied for, and even the medical records I have requested...
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The Initial Aftermath
Yesterday was the SSDI hearing. Turns out I was dealt the most difficult judge, and despite my intense anxiety I went in feeling more confident than I expected to be going in (which is slightly...
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Healthcare Held Hostage
I apologize for not posting in the middle of this week, but to be frank… some crazy shit went down. I got a call on Tuesday from my therapist who told me the clinic I go to was going to allow me to...
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Confronting Delusions
The older I get, the more acutely I’m aware that my mind creates fictional situations and relationships all on its own. Once I started paying more attention to this process, I realized that this issue...
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Journalist Comes Out About Having Mental Illness
I want to share an article that I found interesting, it is a post written by Mark Joyella, a journalist and former television reporter who has just recently come out about having a mental illness to...
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Asking For Help
I’ve been seeing an alarming number of blog posts in which people discredit the notion of asking for help, or claim that asking for help is for the weak. I find this claim wildly disturbing. Not only...
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Obsessing Over Food
Even though I was diagnosed as a teenager with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (due to primarily overwhelming obsessive thinking I couldn’t seem to control), the majority of my obsessive compulsions as a...
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The Long Shot
Yesterday’s adventure (of trying to hunt down an emergency Lithium prescription) started out with an electric jolt to my need to find a solution. It ended with what might be the biggest miracle I’ve...
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Tattoos and Closure
In many parts of America I think tattoos are written off as the hallmark of degenerates. I think what our culture is slowly realizing (on the tails of American youth) that tattoos are no longer symbols...
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I Follow the Rules; Now You Follow the Rules
Apartment hunting may be the optimal task for hypomania. I have been making flurries of phone calls, refreshing my local craigslist page every twenty minutes, and attempting to jump into these...
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