today is a tough day
I feel overloaded

I'm still doing the fibromyalgia thing. 
Last Thursday I had an intake appointment at a (my) chronic pain clinic.  Based on what they knew of me, that morning, within an hour of my appointment, I had a procedure to inject steroids into my lumbar spine which was considered outpatient surgery.  The procedure itself ( Read more... )

According to NAMI, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, depression is defined as the following:
What is major depression?

Major depression is a serious medical illness affecting 15 million American adults, or approximately 5 to 8 percent of the adult population in a given year. Unlike normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or ( Read more... )

I've been rocking the big D for decades now, most of that time undiagnosed. Before diagnosis I've been bulimic, anorexic, alcoholic, a self-harmer and suicidal.

So it's spring time, and maybe we should talk about depression and anxiety. I pair the two together because they seem to be hand-in-hand with diagnosis these days. I, for example, am not ( Read more... )

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Random thoughts on recent topics of conversation....(more soon)

Withdrawal effects from Oxycodone for addicts: (link to info)

• Nausea and diarrhea
• Intense body pain
• Abdominal cramping (Sound familiar?)
• Tremors
• Muscle cramps and spasms (Or this?)

The countdown to my appointment is getting serious. I talked to Linda on the phone this morning and she asked me if I was excited. It's there, kind of under the skin, but I know I'm just going to have to wait some more ( Read more... )

This is a lovely from Soul Searching's Blog. (http://searching4mysoul.typepad.com/) I thought I'd give it a try. Mind you, the moon has been full ( Read more... )