On Mental Illness and Recovery

Generally by the time you realize you have mental illness and share the fact with others, it means you are no longer lost and you are back on the road of sanity and life. Mental illness is not being lost. We cope, deny and self-medicate when lost. We survive. Mental illness happens afterwards, when we …

No Alcohol, No Problem

It's pretty sad that we as a society are really against drunk driving and teen rape, but also, as a society, adhere to the peer pressure belief that you need to drink to be cool/adult/throw a good party. It's a real social stigma, and one that costs people their lives and health. Once the stigma …

Feelings

Sometimes people just want you to roll with life, it or whatever it is, even if you can't. Feelings are like a wheel. If normal and undamaged you can roll along nicely whatever the terrain. If they are damaged and warped then rolling along is difficult or even impossible.  To get moving along you need …