As the title reads, I am quite angry and upset about the injustices inflicted on the working class. I am tired of everything having to be a 10 yard fight with one step forward and two steps backward. Life does not have to (and should not) be this way and it is certainly not in…
Facts Versus Feelings
This morning I’m in a personal battle of facts over feelings. I don’t feel bad per se but I find myself feeling as if I’m going back to spinning my wheels some. I’m feeling as if everything is one step forward and two steps backwards. This is somewhat frustrating so I had to break out…
Some Anxiety About Primary Care
On Tuesday of this week I have a visit as a new patient with Wilmington Adult Medicine. Of all of the doctors that I have to see, the only one that causes anxiety is seeing the primary care physician; made even more so by the fact that this is going to be a new doctor…
A Rant and Maybe a Rave
These days a website that throws a security error is enough to drive people away from it and rightfully so. Given the proliferation of scam artists and criminals out there on the interwebs, it is always prudent to use a healthy amount of paranoia. That much said, capitalism never fails to take advantage of fear…
A Self Check-in For January 23, 2020
After yesterday’s very triggering day which was no doubt aided by the fact that I was taking the wrong medication and none the wiser, I have decided that I need to do a self check-in write-up. This is one of the coping skills that Ms. Tangie from the partial hospitalization program highly recommended so her…
Taking Extra Care
I learned a valuable lesson today about being extra careful to take the medications that you think you are taking. As it turns out, my pills for stomach acid reduction are the identical color to the ones fot Cymbalta. I couldn’t figure out why I felt so physically terrible all day long and I was…
A Triggering Assessment
This morning I had my intake assessment with RI International. RI is providing case management services for me while I’m in recovery. They have helped me out tremendously thus far. Next week they will be getting me approval for access to the local clothing bank among other things. But I digress, the intake did not…
A New President An Old Problem
We would all have to be living under a rock to know that Donald J. Trump left the White House in disgrace and dishonor. He and Melania Trump felt it better for the both of them to simply vanish to Mar-a-Lago and back into the woodwork like cockroaches with the light shining on them. I…
A Wish for WordPress
I really like WordPress for blogging and it is really the best platform out there for doing so. That much said, it has one sticking point with me which is that it is too closely tied to MySQL and MariaDB for the database backend. For those of you whom are not Information Technology professionals, WordPress…
Mental Illness Symptom Management
One valuable thing that I have learned is that mental illness is often symptom management. Not all symptoms can or need to be managed by medication. In my view, the purpose of medication is to get me to the point of baseline feeling or maybe just a little bit beyond. Self care symptom management can…