Overcoming Barriers To Living One’s Life When Highly Medicated And Sleeping 12-14 Hours A Day

I don’t know where to begin, or how to make this all-encompassing, but here’s what I feel… There is no precise way to overcome a lot of what I experience. Most of what I go through! It will always be there with me. In varying forms, I will always struggle! But, how do you go […]

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Just Hold On: Thoughts About Support Systems

I am only beginning to come into my own again, where my support system is concerned. The old system, meant that I had to endure a multitude of opinions about what matters or mattered (to my support people, rather than me), as the case was. But, I can’t even begin to think of the old, […]

My 225th Post & Now Allowing Search Engines To Index My Site

This is my 225th post! It’s been a fun journey and YAY! 😛 Also, I am posting every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (with the occasional post in-between) these days. And, whenever possible, I like to practice better self-awareness. It’s far from easy, but it helps when you’re “in the know.” So, I purposely have kept […]

Better But Not Fixed: A Response To My Voices About Employment And Mental Health (Part Two)

In Part One, I posed the following question and answer… https://mentallyillinamerica.com/2020/02/28/better-but-not-fixed-a-response-to-my-voices-about-employment-and-mental-health-part-one/ Question: Why don’t mental health advocates talk more about schizophrenia and related disorders? Answer: It’s not in the agenda. The reason many mental health professionals do not have it in the agenda, has to do with the severity of the illness. It is so […]

Better But Not Fixed: A Response To My Voices About Employment And Mental Health (Part One)

I feel quite heavily the weight of my decision to share these thoughts, knowing that this will garner the wrong kind of attention. Probably. But, can we be candid for a moment… about schizophrenia and employment? When did we become a society that values employment over diminished health? In taking care of my own diminished […]