Another update on my recovery. My new psychiatrist is supportive of my mental health goals and we are going to take a fresh look at my medication. I’m feeling optimistic.
Year: 2020
Poster girl with no poster
People tell me that I’m a role model, but for what exactly? Exploring what it means to be perceived as a leader worth emulating.
Dialog with Jerk Brain
Here’s an insider’s view of an extended volley between me and my Jerk Brain. It isn’t pretty.
Whose story is it anyway?
As human beings, we tell stories and form narratives that create the base of our worldview and perspective. We all must be aware of the stories we tell, consume, believe, and act upon, their providence, and our right to tell them.
Recovery update: Do-si-do your doctor
An update on my recovery from my long-term major depressive episode. Changing doctors, finding a new therapist, and trying to get #jerkbrain to stop telling me over and over again that I’m failing at getting better.
Enough about you, let’s talk about me, me, me!*
Depression is all about itself. As humans, that’s tough for us to process, but critical for us to understand.
Liz(zie) 4.1
Yesterday was my birthday. It changes everything and nothing. My gift to myself is that I get that now.
A synonym for “nothing left to lose”
What does it mean for me to be away from my professional career right now? Is this freedom? If so, what am I free from exactly?
An object at rest
My experience with exhaustion through the lens of my depression, informed by Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Classical Mechanics.
Crazy, insane, nuts
It’s about being aware of how what you’re saying affects those around you, not policing your words.
Seriously, Jerk Brain?! 