May is Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month. The month is about real­iz­ing how com­mon men­tal health issues are, sup­port­ing each oth­er through them, and remov­ing the stig­ma about them.

A few statistics:

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Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there.

First, a ran­dom thought:
“For money you can have every­thing it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; med­i­cine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowl­edge but not intel­li­gence; glit­ter, but not com­fort; fun, but not plea­sure; ( Read more... )

We were fairly sure of this right after I finally had my Social Security hearing last month based on the very positive statements from the judge, but I didn't want to jinx anything. We got the official letter in the mail today, saying that the decision was "fully favorable!" SQUEE ( Read more... )

The girl had an appointment at the doctor’s office today, then we had to go to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to have an EKG and lab work done-just part of the normal monitoring for some of her meds. And that’s all we did today, other than trying to pick up my meds (which weren’t ready) and popping by the mailbox.

So why did I collapse by the ( Read more... )

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My therapist, L, is no longer with the practice I’ve been seeing for the last couple of years. It took a year to get to her-first, they assigned me to M, who was a total pain in the ass and didn’t listen. Not that I was inclined to talk to her, anyway. And she didn’t return phone calls.

So I finally got beyond the “getting to know you” stage with L ( Read more... )

It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that education is not a “one size fits all” endeavor, online or elsewhere. This bit about learning styles, however, did surprise me:

“Correlations between learning styles and success in distance education have shown to be inconclusive,” Strickland 1Shawna L. Strickland, clinical assistant professor in the ( Read more... )

I’m working on a new podcast episode. Really!

And I’d like very much to hear from you. Are you working? Have you had to change anything about work since developing a chronic illness? Have any of you gone back to work after taking some time off? Is anybody willing to be interviewed?

Thanks!

Mirrored from Cyn Armistead.

I’ve successfully completed 1/4 of the semester! Without using any kind of accommodations!

I realize that’s a fairly pitiful thing to celebrate, but I have to take what I can get.

The project management course is actually giving me useful experience using MS Project, along with information that is applicable in the “real world.” There’s also a ( Read more... )

It’s been SO long since I updated things here! Not that I think anybody really missed me, but still, I should have kept it up a bit better.

Katie tried attending a good high school near us and loved it. She got great grades, was chosen to work on the yearbook (it’s a very competitive process there), and was even made the chief photographer right ( Read more... )