Me smoking a cigarette. I’ve smoked for about three years and in the height of my smoking I was going through a pack a day. I decided two start this endeavor we call “quitting smoking” about two months ago in my family doctor’s office. I mentioned my smoking was bothering me and she immediately suggested […]
Read MoreWhen I was entering into my fourth and final year of University I experienced a manic induced psychosis. It was possibly the strangest and most frightening experience of my life. I experienced paranoia, delusional thinking and auditory as well as visual hallucinations. It was triggered by a LaSenza scout who contacted me to ask that […]
Read MoreAriana Grande and Mac Miller (one of Ari’s exes mentioned in “thank u, next”). Ariana Grande released a new single called “thank u, next” recently in which she name drops exes and claims a new beau, Ari, a.k.a herself. Two things stand out for me the most when I listen to this song, firstly the […]
Read MoreThere is a sort of grief that comes with bipolar disorder. When you are first diagnosed it can come as a shock and feel as though a part of you has died. This death of self needs to be grieved in order to accept the diagnoses and move on. Just as you would grieve someone […]
Read MoreI lost my father to lung cancer at the age of fourteen and I can’t help but wonder if that had an effect on my mental health. I have a tendency to fixate on death especially when I am depressed, ever since he passed. The last words my father said to me was “Just cut […]
Read MoreI’ve been thinking a lot about my life and where it is going lately. I had a long talk with myself (yes, I talk to myself) and realized it’s literally going nowhere. I currently do not have a job, am not in school anymore and spend the majority of my time napping. I began to […]
Read MoreI’ve been attending a weekly Anxiety and Depression Group for about 8 weeks at my local hospital and I can honestly say its helped and brought more attention to my negative thinking and the effect it has on my life. I believe in this day and age it’s really hard not to be anxious or […]
Read MoreI was robbed in life, by life and circumstance. I literally lost my mind in my early 20’s due to the onset of bipolar disorder. I was delusional and completely at a loss with reality. The onset occurred the year I was going to be attending my fourth and final year of University. This was […]
Read MoreI will blog later in more detail on this subject but I just thought I’d introduce an old but good idea that the gym helps with anxiety. There is something to be said about taking control of your body. Gains in the gym come to represent gains in life in that if you put hard […]
Read MoreBipolar disorder is characterized by two poles forever in opposition and commonly referred to as mania and depression. My personal experience with this disorder is a sort of like Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are two characters or technically one in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and […]
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