when I don’t think I’ll make it. Days when I can hardly bring myself to do the very basic things, eat, swallow pills, take my dog out, do a load of wash. I am so tired of fighting. I can’t calm the racing of my heart. My hands won’t stop shaking. I don’t want anyone [...]
' August 29th, 2009 at 02:10pm
Remember pagers? Oh, I’ve been paged! Now I need to get to a phone.
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With summer nearing its end my teens seem to want to spend every last second doing either nothing, or hanging out with friends. I feel a rush inside, things to get ready for that probably have already been taken care of. Polly [...]
' August 24th, 2009 at 01:23pm
In the days since I last posted here, boy have I slipped back down. It seems like one thing after another. The washing machine broke; we were able to scrounge up the money to buy a used one, and then the dryer broke. Our kids asked when we were going to get a new one [...]
' August 5th, 2009 at 08:40pm
These ten basics are the foundation of the treatment program that I recently took part in at a local hospital. I thought that they might be useful to other readers, so I am typing them up to post here. To hopefully avoid any confusion I’ll type my words in italics, and those from the hospital [...]
' July 22nd, 2009 at 04:13pm
The number one thing that I wish to say is that the kindness and support I’ve received here from my readers has meant so much to me. I printed out the comments and I carry them with me one the bus to and from the hospital. I am still struggling with agoraphobia, depression and panic [...]
' May 30th, 2009 at 02:20am