There are huge things that get us all down every day. While it’s okay to feel sad or down sometimes, we should view staying “up” as our personal responsibility and goal.
As we see the growing numbers of foreclosures, we should realize that houses are material and memories of family live on even after you have passed away.
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This is an opinion piece that includes religion. I want to make clear that I value each of my individual readers and I hold no judgment against any chosen belief structure out there. If you read this blog, you are intelligent. If anything in this post offends someone out there, please disregard it. The normally [...]
When times are low, how can you avoid an internal depression. After all, it is much worse than an economic one.
Bipolar is “special” among mental illnesses in that it has something called “The Manic Episode.” People ranging from Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) to Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) have spoken publicly about theirs.
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My hope in this series is to produce a paradigm shift in people’s attitude toward bipolar. Remember when you were a kid and your parents said you were going somewhere really special? Depending on your age, it could have been grandmother’s house or a flight to a 3 day stay at Disneyland. Remember feeling your [...]
You may know the title is a John Lennon tune. I think getting through the night is sometimes easier said than done when you are down. For babies, sometimes all you need to do is change the crib bedding, for grownups, it’s not always so easy. There is a reason companies offer a plethora [...]
A therapist told me, “The thirties are a time when you grow into your own skin.” and that was healing to me at the time. I had just turned 30 and was seeing her for depression and cognitive issues I was having. (people are saying … eeek, Damien is finally revealing things, well [...]
“How fragile we are.”
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A single word can add value to your life. In college I read that in a book and tried it out. I bought a pack of 3×5″ cards on sale and searched my mind and dictionary for words to concentrate on. This had a profound impact on the anxiety and [...]
The highs and lows of roller coasters are our lives. I explore this analogy.
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