Sticky post: I may be well

Hi, I haven’t been keeping up the blog partly because things are going so well for me. If you have been diagnosed with a mental illness and/or are taking psychiatric medication and stumbled across this blog take heart, you can recover. Your life can be fun, productive, calm…whatever consider as good. You can also wean off psychiatric drugs.

I started this blog to share my experience with others. I am at a good place in my life. I still am not ready to go public and I have other projects where I need to spend time. So I will not be posting as regularly.

2010 is here

Hi everyone,

Maybe I am just procrastinating. I have so much to do today. And here I am looking at my blog.   I used to consider myself mentally ill, but now I don’t think anyone would consider me that.  I am out an about and active in the community.  I am closer and closer to just plain getting off of disability.  I am still scared because of the health insurance situation.

I am dating my husband. It is okay.

David Mackler Anti-Medication Song

Winter is here and blood pressure is still high

Hi Blog friends,

Last night I had to get another blanket. The winter chill is here.

I see my last post was Sept. 16 and it was about my blood pressure. I have a hard time eating as much fruits as I should and doing my breathing exercises and going to yoga. I wanted to get my blood pressure down without medication, but I don’t it seems I do not have the self-discipline to do it. I was able to wean off all psych drugs. I guess there is a reason why they call high blood pressure the silent killer. There are no symptoms. When I decided to wean of psych drugs I was highly motivated because I didn’ tlike the side effects of the drugs or the symptoms of the diagnosis. But I have no negative symptoms with high blood pressure.

I have a med check and a physical tomorrow. I am currently taking enalapril.

It is frustrating. Because of my experience with medication I don’t want to take any, but I know I need to get this under control

My blood pressure is back up

Hi,

My blood pressure is back up. Today it was 190/100.

I have quit going to yoga. I am back to drinking about three to four cups of coffee in the morning.

What am I going to do?

 

Caffeine

I had weaned myself down to one cup of coffee a few months ago. Well, I slowly kept drinking a second cup or making it stronger. Now I get a roaring headache if I don’t drink some coffee right away in the morning AND if I only drink one cup.

Here are some posts that I wrote about this previously.

Naturgal and caffeine

 

Hello, it’s November

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

Wow, it is November already!. I have been doing pretty well. I feel integrated into society and some parts of my life are good.  I would say I feel that I am 95 % better or self-confident. I have applied for a couple competitive jobs and came in a close second. I still have my moments and I am still on disability, but I am working my darndest (is that they way you spell that?) to be confident that I can do it by myself.  It is just the health insurance thing that really scared me. I don’t want to lose Medicare without another insurance in place first.

I haven’t gone to yoga in months and I haven’t been taking my high blood pressure medicine. I am at goal with Weight Watchers.

 

Over diagnoses of bipolar disorder discussed on radio

Midmorning is discussing over diagnoses of bipolar disorder.

You can listen here.

Midmorning MPR

Feeling normal on a Sunday morning

Hi,

It’s Sunday morning. I am debating what to do with my blog. I have gotten very busy and there is a lot to blog about, but I am also feeling very much normal.  I think that I am cured of my “mental illness.” Haha…my life-long, debilitating, persistent and severe mental illness.

I am not off of disability because I am still scared. Scared I might have an episode. But I am getting closer and closer.

I feel so normal.

The people I started blogging with, have stopped blogging. It’s not like the “ole days.”  I really felt I had a community of support.

I am very environmentally minded and I am wondering if I should just have a blog on the environment under a different name. I am not ready to reveal my journey to hell and back with psych drugs to the general public. But maybe some day I could.

A disconnect? Organic healthy food and proponal drip to sleep?

So I have been watching the reports on Michael Jackson and his use of propofol. How sad that he thought he needed drugs to be normal. He used proponal (a drug that is used for surgery) to sleep.

Too bad a doctor did insist he try some natural atletrantives. Like going swimming and relaxation techniques.

The media also interviewed his cook who was gushing about how he was into organic, healthy food. Too bad he didn’t follow the whole philosphy of treating your body naturally. There seems to be a disconnect in eating organic and using anesthetic propofol to fall a sleep. Read more here.

Interview with the chef here.