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She doesn’t get why the girl who’s been shar­ing the seat gives her a glare when she gets off the bus– at least not until the girl– pretty in a red and pur­ple vin­tage style wrap dress, zaftig though more so than Mad Men’s Christina Hen­dricks– says to the friend who’d been stand­ing next to […]

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The prob­lem with their find­ing noth­ing wrong is that they don’t find a cause, either– which means the cause is still out there.  Which means it comes back.  Creeps back, so at first you don’t really notice, a lit­tle bit of exhaus­tion, a small bit of nau­sea, some tired­ness, until your friend wafts some cookies […]

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Her head buzzes, her sinuses ready to burst.
It’s pres­sure.  It passes.  She knows.
She knows it like sun­shine, like rain, like some­thing that can be pre­dicted– because it’s some­thing that can.  Titrate the meds up by just one lit­tle white pill (so pretty, so inno­cent, smaller than baby aspirin), sleep well for the first time in weeks that […]

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There’s a long arti­cle in this weekend’s Mag­a­zine about the hardwiring/predisposition toward anx­i­ety as a psy­cho­log­i­cal dis­or­der, some­thing that adds to the Nature v. Nur­ture debate. This, in par­tic­u­lar, rang true:
“Two peo­ple can expe­ri­ence the same level of anx­i­ety, he said, but one who has inter­est­ing work to dis­tract her from the jit­tery feel­ings might […]

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The well­ness edi­tor at the NYT wrote a thought-provoker link­ing to an arti­cle about the results of a study com­par­ing gen­der roles and spouses’ feel­ings about house­work between het­ero­sex­ual and homo­sex­ual cou­ples.  I thought it was inter­est­ing and it’s some­thing I’m going to think about, even though the BH and I are bet­ter than many couples […]

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An assort­ment of things in my head right now…
I am enjoy­ing the new/old chair with the fancy uphol­stered seat my friend L. re-cycled to me after get­ting a new din­ing set. It’s just the right height and depth for sit­ting at the table with my legs up on the chair across from me, while I […]

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I swear, I post about all the side effects mostly so that it pops up in layperson’s terms when someone’s hav­ing weird side effects to par­tic­u­lar med­ica­tions.  Which is my way of jus­ti­fy­ing that I am also whin­ing a lit­tle.  OK, a lot, but I think I am jus­ti­fied, since I am turn­ing into the […]

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It wasn’t my thy­roid. It was inter­sti­tial nephri­tis, an aller­gic kid­ney inflam­ma­tion. Lucky, ducky, cold-turkey off my lithium me. But, it pays to pay atten­tion to your body, too– good­ness knows I’m not inter­ested in spend­ing a few days in the hos­pi­tal on dial­y­sis. And I get to try abil­ify to […]

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“That tell­tale lump in the throat” is up at RealMental.

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A detailed review of the Men­tal Health Par­ity move­ment, and the push to make health insur­ers cover men­tal ill­ness on par with phys­i­cal ill­ness.  No ques­tion where I fall on the larger ques­tion, but I’d be inter­ested in review­ing any sci­en­tific dis­cus­sion about the ways to show/prove/test for the exis­tence of hormonal/biochemical men­tal ill­nesses such […]

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