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Tag Archives: Depression
From My Very Depths
I am not even sure how to start this post off, how it will form or if I will publish it. I have fallen into a deep depression, not just a depression, a kind of stupefying of my brain, where … Continue reading
Someday I am Going To…
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 5. Someday I am going to…(Inspired by Marcy Writes) Someday I am going to build my blog back to where it was. The day before my last blog post on January 11, 2012, … Continue reading
F*cking Interstitial Cystitis!
After having increasingly worse vaginal pain, I went to my primary care practice on Thursday. Since I have only just started taking care of my health again in August, I don’t have a gynecologist. I was seen by an intern, … Continue reading
Results of Disability Hearing: The Do-Over
(Disclaimer: The following account is my personal experience with a disability hearing and should in no way compare with anyone else’s experience. I do my best to research what I write, and seek to provide correct information to my readers; … Continue reading
My Son, My Hope
September 10-16 is National Chronic Illness Awareness Week. In my posts I hope to comfort those who are first experiencing chronic illness and those who continue to live a life in chronic pain and with chronic illness; as well as … Continue reading
Dropping Back Into Life
Let me start off by saying how sorry I am to have made you worry. I received so many emails, tweets and comments on my blog from concerned readers. After eight months, I finally feel ready to talk again. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Depression, Disability SSDI, Emily, Grant, Lupus, Mama Kat's Losin' It, Massachusetts, Mental Illness, Ohio, Tyler
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Please Tell Me I am Not the Only One
It is really hard for me to write this, it has been really hard for me to do much of anything. Usually I write to let people know that they are not the only ones suffering from an illness and … Continue reading
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Tagged agoraphobia, anxiety, Benlysta, Depression, Lupus, Mental Illness, Methadone
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Happy to See 2011 Go, Especially This Week!
Poor Tyler. He has been home all week for Winter break and what a week it’s been for me healthwise. He has been great through it all I have to say. As I have told you, I have been going … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Christmas, chronic illness, chronically ill moms, Depression, Emily, Grant, holidays, insomnia, Mental Illness, nausea, New Year's Eve, therapist, Tyler
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The Summer of Chronic
About ten minutes ago (around 7 a.m.) I got my first sense of “back to school” dread. Even though I was a good student, I was a girl who loved her summers. I was a tom boy; a tree climber, … Continue reading
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Tagged abilities, anxiety, autumn, back to school, back to school blues, back to school time, chronic, chronic disease, chronic illness, Connecticut, daycare, Depression, diagnosis, Disability, disease, Get Smart, Gidget, Grant, Harriet the Spy, Judy Blume, karate, kindergarten, Labor Day, library, Lupus, New Jersey, New York, OCD, Paul Zindel, pre-school, preschool, sensory issues, Sensory Perception Disorder, Social Security Administration, summer, summer camp, The Cars 2, The Smurfs, Tyler, Winnie the Pooh, winter
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The ShutMyMouth Diet
That’s right. I am officially on a diet. If I write it here for God and all to see then I have to stick with it! When women have chronic illnesses, it often is very much out of our control … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, Ben & Jerry's, But You Don't Look Sick, cancer, Christine Miserandino, chronic illnesses, Depression, diet, dieting, endocrine system, endocrinologist, exercise, firing your doctor, Gestational Diabetes, heroin chic, insomnia, Lupus, med, medications, metabolism, Oreo, Oreo cookies, Osteoporosis, pain, post-partum, pre-pregnancy, pre-pregnancy weight, pregnancy, pregnant, psychiatrist, Rubenesque, The Spoon Lady, therapist, Tyler, weight, weight gain, weight loss
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