A writer with a law degree. A crazy woman in the kitchen. Sometimes able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, links, medicine, science on Jun 10th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Clutter, Uncategorized, bipolar, crank, good things, links, medicine, meds, music, sparkly on May 14th, 2008
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 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 [...]
Posted in bipolar, crank, links, medicine, meds on Apr 29th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in bipolar, crank, links, medicine, meds, mom, real mental on Apr 7th, 2008
“That telltale lump in the throat” is up at RealMental.
Posted in bipolar, links, medicine, politics, science on Mar 31st, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in bipolar, crank, lawyer, medicine, meds, mom on Mar 7th, 2008
The sound of one lawyer, raging, is the tippity-typety of my fingers taking out my ire at incompetent social workers and inadequate mental health hospitals by documenting their idiocy and planning a complaint to the state licensing board.
It is also the sound of fingers quickly dialing telephone numbers, and leaving messages that start off like [...]
My dad’s a sober alcoholic. He has been, without one single relapse, since I was 12. Despite his iron resolve not to relapse, and his real success in dealing with some of the things that caused him to start drinking in the first place, I’ve always been cautious about my drinking, because I [...]
There’s an interesting article/column in the NYT, talking about whether experiencing mental health treatment (and the attendant suffering driving them to seek it) makes mental health care providers better at their jobs. Though I wouldn’t wish mental illness or emotional suffering on anyone, I do think that a bit of practical experience provides the practitioner [...]
Posted in bipolar, crank, government, links, medicine, politics, science on Jan 17th, 2008
The NYT published an article about drug trials and the underreporting of negative and equivocal study results to the FDA and peer-approved journals, data which factors significantly into the FDA’s assessment of where a proposed drug falls along the risk/benefit spectrum. To me, it’s no surprise. Despite cladding their studies in impenetrable jargon and cloaking [...]