Sometimes it’s difficult to deal with having bipolar disorder. Now, that’s an understatement, isn’t it? Sometimes it can be downright overwhelming! Actually, it’s not just the dealing with bipolar disorder that can be overwhelming, but the dealing with life in general, with all its ups and downs, that can be overwhelming sometimes. You have to […]

When you have bipolar disorder, you have to take the bad days with the good (which is true for life in general, but especially true when it comes to bipolar). You can’t take it to the extreme, however. What am I talking about? Well, first of all, you can’t assume that every time you feel […]

Gone are the days when I used to wear my bipolar disorder like a shield, defending myself against the public stigma waved at me by every passerby, real or just perceived by my paranoid self. Today I just enjoy being myself, usually able to ignore the fact that I even have bipolar disorder at all. […]

There was a time when bipolar disorder was a dark shade against my window of the world, but eventually I got better. Now I believe that my bipolar disorder is really kind of a blessing in disguise. I was working as a medical transcriptionist in a hospital when I “lost it” and had to be […]

Someone told me lately that if I’m unhappy, that it’s my own fault. My first impulse was to hit them. Now, if you saw me, you’d think that this was funny, because I’m all of 4’10” tall, and weigh about 115 pounds. No, that’s a lie. I wish I weighed 115 pounds. I really weigh […]

I am the ultimate perfectionist. Yes, me. I even got a fortune cookie one time that said, “You have a yearning for perfection,” do you believe that?” Even Confucius knows it! But it’s a real battle for me. I expect things from myself that I would never expect from anyone else, and it really messes […]

Well, it looks like it’s almost over, folks! President Biden says that everyone should have their Covid vaccinations by the middle of April, and many states are talking about lifting the mask mandates already. My husband and I got our vaccinations a couple of weeks ago because we are considered high risk, and it was […]

Well, Phase 1c of the Covid vaccine was released today, which means it’s available for me and my husband, him for diabetes and heart condition and me for chronic kidney disease. I was lucky enough to get appointments for us at Walmart, which is right up the street, so we don’t even have to go […]

Well, folks, we have a winner! After all the rigamarole over ballots and court cases that Trump caused, and the protests and what happened with that all at the White House, everything went ahead as scheduled after all and we have a winner – Biden is our new president. I’m not saying who I voted […]

Well, I would wish you a Happy New Year, but is it? I, along with everyone else I know, was so very happy to see 2020 end and was more than happy to welcome in 2021 with open arms, totally optimistic and expecting that the new year would bring with it better times. Well, it […]