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01 Feb 2012
What to share today? Someone once asked me what was it like living on a day-to-day basis with bipolar disorder? The first thing that came to my mind was ‘side effects’. I am specifically referring to the side effects of my medication. I have been struggling so hard lately with my diagnosis and the prescribed medication regime. I am so sick of acne, weight gain, feelings of paranoia, visual disturbances, depth perception issues, and the loathing every...
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30 Dec 2011
A new beginning...here I stand fresh, recharged and happy. However, a few weeks ago, I was absent from the world. Due to a significant depression I was forced to take 2 weeks off work and it was the best thing that I could have done for myself. Over the past month I have realized that depression is not JUST fuelled by the arrangement of chemicals in the brain. It is so much more. For myself, as many of you know I had been going through a break up and even though it...
21 Nov 2011
This is the third year in a row that we have created awesomeness! Upon reflection, this year was the best one yet. I am still glowing with happiness and gratitude. I am thankful for all my friends who came together to make this night magnificent. From make-up artists, models, singers, comedians, MCs, a great DJ and countless others made this night magical. The one development that I felt was impacting was the amount of youth that attended, thanks to a young lady...
02 Nov 2011
How are things? Up until recently, pretty fabulous, except I got a bit of a surprise. I went for my yearly physical today and my doctor told me that I have a swollen thyroid! GREAT! Things have been going so well and then this happens. I don’t want to be negative and say ‘just my luck’ because that would be false advertising, I consider myself very lucky. It is difficult to accept that I might have a hypo-thyroid. This...
04 Oct 2011
As of late, it has come to my attention that the issue of stigma runs rampant in numerous areas of society, often in relationships when a person has a disorder, disease, virus, etc. It is amazing that you can have a beautiful and intense connection with someone and *poof* the news is shared and things change. There is a certain uncertainty that is born and a potential relationship may often crash and burn before it even received the chance to blossom.
Having had meaningful and...
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