My 4-week emotional cycle [Possible trigger warning for discussion of how my mental illness makes me feel on a regular basis.]

Don't drink, don't smoke, what do I do?

Dealing with the not-so-good days [Trigger warning for discussion of self-injury.]

Back to feeling (somewhat) normal

The mental illness closet: are you in or out?

The headache of ( Read more... )

I haven't said much about the current "putting the 'con' back in 'non-consentual'" situation since 1) busy and 2) anyone who thinks I'm into victim blaming clearly doesn't know me very well and I assume that those of you still reading me these days at least have a passing familiarity with what my opinion is in these situations ( Read more... )

Happy Solstice! Blessed Yule, and all that sort of thing. Today I celebrated by giving gifts of food (the results of my baking this weekend) to various co-workers. Actually I had planned to do it today because tomorrow is when people start taking off for their vacations and today just so happened to be the Solstice but we're going to pretend like I ( Read more... )

Older Brother has developed an interest in nature-based religions/spirituality. I told him that, thanks to my awesome friends, I could probably put together a recommended reading list of books that might interest him that would be high on actual information and low on the fluffy-bunny "I'm 1/100000000th Indian on my mother's side and thus can write ( Read more... )