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Tomorrow I Will Lie to My Doctor
It’s always like this when I go to see a doctor who isn’t a shrink. I tell them my symptoms, and then it goes one of two ways: Way #1 She listens to me carefully and proposes a diagnosis and a...
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Crazy People Get Sick Too
“Crazy people get sick too.” a professor of mine in medical school told me, as we walked through a crowded urban emergency room. He firmly emphasized to his small crowd of followers that it was...
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If It Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, It’s Probably a Duck; or,...
Yup, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. That’s one of the many medical aphorisms that I found true enough to include in my shopping bag of things to think about...
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Blog For Mental Health 2013!
I am proud and humbled to have been pledged by Ruby Tuesday of A Canvas of the Minds as a Mental Health Blogger for 2013. It’s not an award, but a commitment to keep on blogging with the aim of...
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Stigma or Witticism? You Decide.
Dearest Readers, I am in a bit of a quandary and I need your help. As some of you know, I live under a rock and rarely come out. On top of being Bipolar, I have lots of Aspergerian features and don’t...
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A Quandary: Mental Illness, Public Safety
Reblogged from A Canvas Of The Minds: Due to quite a few recent tragedies, debates about mental illness have been prominent in the public eye. Perhaps they aren't as visible as, say, gun control laws...
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Do Mad People Fall Sick?
“Do mad people fall sick” was one of the search terms that somehow landed someone at my blog today. Oh I know, it must have been because I mentioned yesterday that I was feeling ill. This is a...
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Losing It
Dr. Dina watched with dull interest as the repossessors hauled off her car and her RV and her luxurious horse trailer with the full living quarters. She watched out the window of the house trailer she...
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Walking Wounded: Betrayal and Stigma
Even a few days later, I’m still stung and hurting. A (former) friend whom I have known for years started a Facebook instant message conversation, and asked me what I’m up to. I said, I’m up to my...
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I Am Alien
Reblogged from Black Box Warnings: The first thing I remember, after they left me, was waking up in a box. The sides of the box were clear, and I could see, through the half-dark, two white shapes...
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Breaking the Silence of Stigma: Ruth Jacobs
Welcome to Breaking the Silence of Stigma, a series of very personal interviews with people who, like me and perhaps like you, live with mental illness. It’s only by breaking the silence and...
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Breaking the Silence of Stigma: In Memory of Kaitlyn
In Memory of my daughter, Kaitlyn Nicole Elkin On April 11, 2013, I got the most dreaded call that any parent could ever get, a call from the police in the town where my 23 year old daughter Kaitlyn...
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Breaking the Silence of Stigma: The Hero Who Lost the War
January, 1991. Ba’athist Iraqis had invaded Kuwait. Unprepared for invasion, the Kuwaitis fled helter-skelter, leaving everything behind. The Iraqis occupied all strategic positions, including...
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Breaking The Silence of Stigma: Laura P. Schulman
This Wednesday’s Breaking The Silence of Stigma interviewee is….me! So, without further ado, let’s jump right into the shark pool! BSS: How long have you known that you are living with a mental...
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Screw you Brian Williams.....
Reblogged from manicmedic: This is why I try to keep my identity secret on here.... Reprinted from -...
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Voices of Mental Illness: Joe and Jess Speak Out
Every Wednesday on Bipolar For Life we have a special feature: Breaking the Silence of Stigma. It’s an interview and/or personal essay format guest appearance from one of our brothers or sisters who...
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Voices of Mental Illness: Breaking the Silence of Stigma
Graham Shiels is the author of The Bipolar Place, and a partner in the stigma-fighting campaign, Faces of Mental Illness. He is a husband, a mail carrier, lives in Livepool, England, and he is a Voice...
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What. A. Day.
To most of you, having to be somewhere at 10 am might not seem like a crisis. Far from it. Many of you have “real jobs” and have to be there at 8, or even 7, in the morning. I have never been a...
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Stigma: A Family Tradition
I think this “SAD light” is helping. Whereas before I had it, all I could think of was classier and more refined ways of offing myself, now I find myself thinking about ways to get back on the ol’...
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Stigma: A Family Tradition, Part Two
I got so excited writing my last post that I forgot to mention the “family tradition” part! So here it is, in all its sad gory. Yes, that’s what I wrote: sad gory. Let’s start with the unfortunate...
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