Once More – Back to Rehab – Take 4

‘”Tis a lesson you should heed, try, try again. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Then your courage should appear, for if you will persevere, you will conquer, never fear, try, try, try again…” -from A Selection of Hymns and Poetry for the Use of Infant Schools and Nurseries, 1838 They […]

I Was Made for You

  The patchwork pieces of my mended heart lie perfectly in the places yours are worn. We stitch our well-weathered hearts together with the threads of empathy and understanding. Together, we mend and heal the jagged edges of our tattered souls. For every massive mercurial leap into mania, you’ve been my tether, my lifeline, my […]

Creativity, Mania and Meds

“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”― Cecil B. DeMille For the longest time, I fought tooth and nail against taking any kind of psychiatric drugs (not to be confused with psychedelic drugs) for many reasons, but mostly because they required me to get clean and sober in order to be effective. I also […]