I am struggling to find the language to describe the place where mania meets food poisoning, and continually find myself resorting to limbo. Definitely limbo. It isn’t hell, but it is definitely being trapped beside it ( Read more... )

Right now no one other than the people I work for seem to understand why I am upset, which is making it hard to stay upset at people instead of at myself. I’m not going to let me talk myself out of being upset, because that’s what I always do. Overreacting, doesn’t really matter, yada yada. And what happens is things keep getting worse and worse ( Read more... )

Being Gentle ( Read more... )

Last time I left off with the grandiose and radically claim that current attitudes towards mental illness are killing us. Here is my justification. Also, Trigger Warning for Suicide and Angst.

People internalize attitudes. It is why aboriginal people can be racist towards aboriginal people, why women can be mysogynists, anf why homosexuals can be ( Read more... )

The biggest problem with mental illnesses, almost all mental illnesses, is that we call them mental illnesses ( Read more... )

I think the best way for people who don’t have bipolar to understand what is going on is to think of it like inverse addiction. Bipolar people are addicted to their own brains and have to take pills in order to recover from the addiction ( Read more... )

I figured that since I’m clearly not writing fanficiton, I might as well start blogging so I’m at least writing, and maybe I’ll get my shit sorted. So here it goes ( Read more... )