Every once in a while I do one of these posts for the newbies, or to set down for myself what I've been able to observe about my behavior vis a vis my mental illness and how I handle it. Or, as in this case, both ( Read more... )

In the last week I have ( Read more... )

So last Friday the steering arm in my car broke in the middle of a commute from one job to another. If you have never experience this before, it's like going into a skid that never ends. Even though this is normally the result of striking a pothole at high speed, 1) I recall no such impacts, 2) I do not drive at high speeds, especially on icy roads ( Read more... )

So I'm about to finish my second week with a local internist, and it's going pretty well. I enjoy my coworkers, especially the main receptionist (who I'm primarily supporting and so thank god we get along), I work a few more hours there, and I have a substantially higher salary. It is for this reason that I thank the 8" of snow for falling today ( Read more... )

Well, the dog's bill of health came back clean (but no less expensive), so that's good. Especially since it proved to be a good conversation piece in today's interview ( Read more... )

(Not that it isn't always, but I do need to recall when this happened for veterinary reasons ( Read more... )

1) AMC's adaptation of The Walking Dead is pretty good, if predictable, and ( Read more... )

So okay, I finally got an appointment with my psychiatrist. I did not arrive in particularly great shape, needing a full xanax just to stop shaking, and I guess it showed, because at the end of the session the doc did something I've never seen happen before and waived the entire $250 session fee. He told the receptionist it was "just a little thing ( Read more... )

I think my psychiatrist just did the equivalent of breaking up with me over Facebook. I assume that's what it means when your psychiatric meds get refused a refill on the grounds you're "no longer a patient" and his office doesn't return your messages ( Read more... )

Erf. Kind of up and down the past week. Thursday I was feeling well enough to do a little exposure-therapy on myself in the form of doing shots of vodka (inebriation being as close as I can get to triggering a hypochondriacal reaction to medication without risking an OD), and that went well. Friday night, when I arguably needed it more, went less ( Read more... )