A foot of snow and still falling. Winds kicking up to 30 mph and higher tonight and tomorrow. It’s going to be interesting over the next 12 to 18 hours.
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From this point forward, this blog changes. I’ve been trying too hard to entertain, and forgot why I do this – as a therapeutic journal, and to force myself to write. So I’ll be writing on stuff I like, stuff I’m feeling, and stuff on my mind.
The Hidden Business Cost of Mental Illness – BusinessWeek.
Here’s an excellent article on the impact of mental health issues in the workplace.
It’s hard to focus on your work when your child is hallucinating.
I’ve experienced this so many times – “please come home, he’s very manic and throwing things around…”
This stigma extends beyond those directly stricken to family members. Parents of children with mental illness are often viewed as guilty by association, unfairly perceived as the cause of the illness—the source of harmful child-rearing practices—when the origin is mainly biological. Parents and other family members feel shame and a sense of failure.
Nobody knows this better than my wife and I. Having lost our adult son to issues associated with bipolar disorder, we tried everything, and heard every piece of advice when he was growing up.
This is a very real problem, but I don’t see any significant changes being made in attitude or workplace policies.
SheWired.com – All-American TV Mom Meredith Baxter Comes Out as a Lesbian.
For the life of me, I truly don’t see why this is newsworthy. I mean, what’s the big deal? Is there anyone on earth that doesn’t understand that sexual orientation is not a choice? Not that I mind seeing her – the pic brings back memories.
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I’m starting to feel that, as with everything in life, there is a reason for mania. My hypo-manic mind gets to the point where I can figure out anything. Deep, relevant, important answers to problems. If my wife would let me I could take apart anything, and assemble back in better shape than when it was originally. Most of the time. There’s been a few things over the years that doesn’t go back together, so she keeps me away from most things. But when my mind moves from hypo-mania to mania, as it does for some of us, it’s not a pleasant prospect. The definition of mania is psychosis, or losing the ability to know you’re manic. When this happens, sleep suffers radically. I sleep 3 to 4 hours a night, almost entirely dependent on sleeping pills to even begin to put me down.
But the initial point of this post: When manic, sleep goes away. When sleep goes away the mind loses it’s ability to process as much. The less active mind is therapeutic for the mania. So once again, a reason for everything.
