INSPIRATION AND EMOTIONAL COURAGE: MENTAL ILLNESS, ADDICTION, AND RECOVERY
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We are Human: Mitigate Our Suffering It's report card day and I am giving American "civilization" an F in compassion because of the primitive savagery it has inflicted, and continues to inflict, upon the mentally ill. Despite the fact that one in five people have a mental illness, and 4% of us suffer from a … Continue reading We Are as Human as You: Mitigate our Suffering.
MIRACLES HAPPEN: BRAIN HEALTH AND RECOVERY Ten years ago, the father in this inspiring video (about a family stricken with kidney disease, fractured by his mental illness and a divorce, and now desperately seeking a kidney for yet another family member) had hit his second major crash from a major Bipolar manic episode, was a … Continue reading MIRACLES HAPPEN: BRAIN HEALTH AND RECOVERY
MEANING AND PURPOSE "A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life." ~Oenomaus "Oenomaus was a Gallic gladiator, who escaped from the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batiatus in Capua. Together with the Thracian Spartacus and the fellow Gauls Crixus, Castus and Gannicus, he became … Continue reading MEANING AND PURPOSE
Medical Parity: The Joke of the 21st Century. Let's take a Quick look At Your Child’s Illness Compared to Mine’s (Schizophrenia) By Laura Pogliano (Share this on every social site you that includes psychology, psychiatry, social work, or departments of health and human services) Your child's illness gets 500, 000 likes on Facebook when you … Continue reading Medical Parity: The Joke of the 21st Century.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERBELLY: I was addicted to a substance or behavior from ages 11 to 50. When my primary relationship was with a substance or behavior, I was spiritually bankrupt and my life was a dumpster fire. Today, by the grace of my Higher Power and hard work, I am free and sober. And … Continue reading NOTES FROM THE UNDERBELLY:
Suit up and show up. Even if you're scared shitless and fuck up badly. That's all anyone or the Universe can ask. And it's called courage. JM
Survival of the Privileged "In a toxic family system, the black sheep is often the person who sees through everyone else's bullshit." That statement fits me as perfectly as the pieces of a Stradivarius as it's crafted and assembled. Ian McKellan, playing James Whale (the retired director of the classic Frankenstein movie) in God's and … Continue reading Survival of the Privileged
THE SUFFERING IS REAL Untreated severe mental illness is a nightmare beyond anything that even the frightening and deeply macabre imagination of Stephen King could portray with its seemingly supernatural capacity to birth a horrific tale. As both a Stephen King fan and as one who has suffered untreated severe mental illness, I feel confident … Continue reading THE SUFFERING IS REAL
I CHOOSE TO REMEMBER THE LESSONS If it were somehow possible to "erase one's mistakes," as if the narrative of one's life was scrawled on some cosmic chalkboard, my erasures would emit so much dust that I would choke to death before I completed a fraction of the task. Alcoholism, a co-addiction, Bipolar Disorder, and … Continue reading I CHOOSE TO REMEMBER THE LESSONS
My Inner Critic: Visciousness Wrapped in Cruelty Inside Hatred "The critical inner voice is a well-integrated pattern of destructive thoughts toward ourselves and others. The nagging “voices,” or thoughts, that make up this internalized dialogue are at the root of much of our self-destructive and maladaptive behavior. The critical inner voice is not an auditory … Continue reading My Inner Critic: Visciousness Wrapped in Cruelty Inside Hatred
