I blocked someone today on Twitter.1 I think I’ve done this maybe half a dozen times to non-spam accounts in the more than year since I’ve been on Twitter, and (almost?) all of those have been run-of-the-mill trolls and douchebags. This one was wasn’t. She was someone who was, I think, misinterpreting what I was [...]
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3 July 2010 at 12:39 am | Category: Mental Health | Tags: bipolar, chronic illness, spoons | 23 comments
Like this? Share it: Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...] 2 June 2010 at 1:08 am | Category: Mental Health, Naked Pictures of Faceless People, Parenting | Tags: bipolar, chronic illness, depression | 7 comments
Like this? Share it: I am a very out person about my mood disorder. I wrote about it and talked about it in all my college applications and interviews; I mention it to everyone I know whenever relevant (and it often is); it’s in my bio here and on most social networking sites. I am an advocate for openness, [...] 13 October 2009 at 8:00 am | Category: Mental Health | Tags: bipolar, chronic illness, woo woo | 8 comments
Like this? Share it: I know this is going to be hard to hear. Because you are hurting. Because the crazy voices in your head (and they are of you, yes, and you are you-with-them, but they are not you) are so loud, so much louder than my quiet voice. Forgive me if I yell sometimes. I’m only trying [...] 15 September 2009 at 1:04 am | Category: Kyriarchy, Mental Health | Tags: bipolar, chronic illness, suffering | 4 comments
Like this? Share it: I was reading about the Australian disability parking scheme bruhaha at Hoyden About Town, when I read this quote (long, but worth it): These existing schemes usually have some kind of distance measure, which says something like ‘person’s impairment would be unduly affected by walking 50m/100m.’ When you compare the “harmonisation” proposal with that, something becomes [...] 1 June 2009 at 12:13 am | Category: Body, Mental Health, Privilege | Tags: ableism, chronic illness | 10 comments
Like this? Share it: I am perched precariously on the edge of a caged tower, and though the odds of falling are poor I cannot shake the fear that grips my heart. Perhaps paranoia is the overwhelming fear of the potentially possible but highly improbable; if so, I hope this is merely paranoia. I am at the park with my [...] 20 May 2009 at 2:55 pm | Category: Mental Health | Tags: bipolar, chronic illness, self-indulgent introspection, well crap | 4 comments
Like this? Share it: 4/10 I take my last thyroid pill (no refills on my script), and get my blood drawn to check my levels (yes, cutting it close; no, I shouldn’t have waited nearly so long; yes, I’ve done it before; no, I probably still won’t stop from doing it again. procrastination is a powerful habit). 4/16 I [...] 27 April 2009 at 9:27 pm | Category: Health | Tags: chronic illness, off-topic, thyroid | 3 comments
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Arwyn
In my bathroom hangs a plaque with a picture of a yin yang and the word BALANCE. I can never get it to hang straight. This probably says something deep and meaningful about my life.
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