Articles tagged with illness
Making sense of tragedy
Tragedy can strike anyone at any time. A death in the family, a serious accident, financial or personal disasters, may cause us to ask the question "Why me" or make us wonder why this could have happened to someone else, like a criminal or really bad
A reminder that good mental health is important...
I'm sure many of you have heard about the Germanwings incident by now, and the press is now reporting that the pilot had been dealing with mental illness. The tragedy has definitely highlighted the stigma of mental illness, and I'm hoping that this brings
Employees who fake illness
Yes there are those employees who fake illness and some do it way more often than others. I was always alarmed at the lengths some employees would go to to stay away from work. The feeling by most of these slackers was that they were entitled to the g
Are We All Mad?
After reading Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, I thought about how others who do not understand us can see us as weird, odd, sick, or any other label to explain away something they do not understand. We see this in families, work relationships, frien
Book Review: Girl, Interrupted
Have you ever had a book that you cannot put down? I began to read Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen on Friday and I finished it in two days. Kaysen's memoir was written in 1993 and was a candid tale of two years of her life in a psychiatric hospital in
Journal 03-05-2015
Good morning or whatever part of the day it is for you. Today is Thursday March 5, 2015. The temperature is 47.6°F and the humidity is 61% at 5:25 a.m. PST (-8 GMT). Weather Underground shows sustained winds at 0.7 with gusts of 1.6 mph. It was m
Journal 03-04-2015
Good morning or whatever part of the day it is for you. Today is Wednesday March 4, 2015. The temperature is 48.2°F and the humidity is 78% at 5:07 a.m. PST (-8 GMT). Weather Underground shows sustained wind at 0 with gusts of 0 mph. It was mostl
Journal 03-03-2015
Good morning or whatever part of the day it is for you. Today is Tuesday March 3, 2015. The temperature is 52.1°F and the humidity is 78% at 7:45 a.m. PST (-8 GMT). Weather Underground shows sustained wind at 1.4 with gusts of 4.5 mph. It’s
Journal 03-02-2015
Good morning or whatever part of the day it is for you. Today is Monday March 2, 2015. The temperature is 50.8°F and the humidity is 88% at 4:50 a.m. PST (-8 GMT). Weather Underground shows sustained winds at 0.7 with gusts of 3.1 mph. It’s
Thanks for Saving My Life Dr. Low
Due to the stigma attached to mental illness, I hid the fact that I was diagnosed with severe, recurrent, major, clinical, agitated depression at the age of 22. Depression runs in my family, and all it took for that disease to rear its ugly head was
This just in: I did not die, I just feel like I did!
I have been gone for a long time from here and I am struggling to get back to being here everyday. To be anywhere everyday. To WAKE UP everyday! OK that was dramatic but, on January 13, I came down with a horrendous illness. It was like the flu on
