My life has been crazy busy the last few days (thus the lack of entries and noting).

In brief, my mom changed her mind and now is advocating VERY strongly for me to remain in Connecticut for the next YEAR! I can’t. I just can’t. Yes I’m doing well out here and yes going home is a risk, but I can’t stay like this for that long. So we had a ( Read more... )

Group was short today because the residents were going to an art museum. I met with Dave for a therapy session afterwards and it went well. The only down was that he thought it was really weird that I made the “All About Abbey” cd, so I felt like a total creep until I talked to her when I got home and she said that he just doesn’t understand our ( Read more... )

Today has been FANTASTIC!!! Let me start from the beginning.

First, I had my horse-back riding interview with L to see if I had the skills necessary to be a riding instructor for her camps this summer. Abbey came with me for moral support and was sitting between L and her daughter while they talked about my riding during my ride. They said I seemed ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago Abbey and I were cleaning out the garage and in it was the wooden frame of a full size couch. Obviously it was garbage, but obviously we were too cheap to pay the dumping fee for an object that large ($10). So the only logical thing to do was to cut it up with a chainsaw and burn it in the fireplace.

Fast-forward to this morning: ( Read more... )

Classes were cancelled today thanks to the weather (hooray!), but I still felt miserable (boo!), so I went to the treatment facility, but not before shoveling 4 inches of slush from the driveway in the pouring rain.  Yeah. If I hadn’t already felt awful, I certainly would have at the end of that fine little exercise in self-torture. Unfortunately, ( Read more... )

So far today has been a day of tears for me. I broke down this morning in group therapy. My therapist said that, while I may be feeling bad, I'm doing phenomenally well because I'm making all the right choices (ex: going to the treatment center last night instead of self-harming, etc.). Then in the afternoon I had to say goodbye to Isabel, my best ( Read more... )

Today has been a day almost like the bad old days, so much so that tomorrow I’m going to get my lithium levels checked (I’m due anyways).

First, in the morning I felt SPECTACULAR!!! when I got back my first college paper in almost a year (I left school last March to go to the hospital) with an A+. After class I went to the grocery store where I ( Read more... )