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- I just wanted to start a good morning and yay for that thread.I did not expect to stay up all night but I was feeling so much better as my 4-day truly horrible flu finally left me and then daylight savings time happened and suddenly it was dawn....
- I recently learned my health insurance, which is Medicare through SSDI, is forcing me to lower my antipsychotic, Saphris, from three tablets nightly to two tablets nightly because that is all they will pay for.I can't afford to pay the extra to stay...
- Can I just get all of you to bear witness with me and help me dissect how shitty this recent YouTube comment was that I got?I put this YouTube video up about six months ago about my illness called "A Schizoaffective in her Natural Habitat". Here's...
- Hi there fellow bipolar peeps,I just wanted to start an appreciation thread for the Bipolar board on DS.I am on 15 (yup, 15) support group boards on DS. I've got more issues than Vogue. They are: Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, (I'm...
- Hi fellow Schizoids,On Twitter I recently came across this article that made more sense for me in explaining my Schizoaffective Disorder than anything I have ever read including the...
- I did wear my wedding ring for the first 8 months after my wife died. Then I got a boyfriend and he didn't like me wearing it so don't wear it anymore.Now I wear a two-finger ring that says HATE on my right hand that belonged to my wife in her...
- I'm sorry I haven't been very active on this board lately. My pain over my wife's death is so raw right now that even reading through the posts can be too triggering and make me sad.I wanted to post, though, because this weekend I am seeing my...
- So, I had a really sad dream about my wife's death that had me tore up for most of the day. Therapy helped, but I'm still feeling really sad about it.When my wife and I were together we used to live in one-bedroom second floor of a back house that...
- Hi y'all.In the interests of dialogue, I'm posting an essay I wrote for the Canadian website Queer Mental Health about the mentally ill and guns:http://queermentalhealth.org/narrative/my-thoughts-on-guns-as-a-mentally-ill-person/?preview=trueGive it...
- I am such a chronic insomniac. Right now I have been awake since 9 am yesterday. LOL. I just don't feel like sleeping yet.In fact, I so enjoy planned, non-destructive to my schedule insomnia that I long-ago settled on certain dawn rituals to repeat...
- What did you think?After watching and falling in love with American Horror Story seasons: Coven, Freakshow and Hotel I was finally brave enough to watch Asylum.I thought it would be too triggering due to the psychiatric content as being forever...
- My favorite late-night snack is almond butter, no bread, eaten with a spoon, from the jar, preferably standing up in the kitchen. It's what I'm eating in tonight's insomniac journey.What's you favorite late-night snack?
- I just received the telephone bombshell that my father doesn't have lung cancer we don't think as we had worried but almost had a lung collapse while getting a biopsy and probably has prostate cancer.I'm freaking out. I know parents die. I know my...
- Hi all,Because this is the Widows and Widowers Support group and I think this would resonate with you guys, I wanted to share an memorial essay for my wife that I recently had published online on Entropy Magazine. It's called "Cockroaches in my...
- Hi all. Good morning! Hope you've had your coffee. I'm still having mine.For the sake of discussion, because this seems like such a good place to do it, I was curious as to what the community thought about medical marijuana?There is research both...