Living With Mental Illness

Rifle Riffle Ruffle

June 3, 2021 I’m floating. I have no connection. My mind is a raging torrential overflow waterfall in a hurricane. I can’t get a hold of...

Impressions at the Psych Hospital - Part III

Note: All characters have been fictionalized to protect their identities. September 25, 2022 Writings from the Nuthouse, Redux (From 9/8...

He was proud of himself, not of me.

Summer 2017 Writings from the Nuthouse I was one angry young woman. In high school, I worked as hard as I could for grades so I was...

You can't kill yourself with Klonipin - Part III

September 24, 2022 Journal Entry Sometimes I try to remember how many times I’ve taken too many Klonipin. I don’t mean the four or six or...

You can't kill yourself with Klonipin - Part II

September 23, 2022 Journal Entry The next few days in the ER were very painful. I was confined to the room and there was a watcher...

You can't kill yourself with Klonipin - Part I

September 22, 2022 Journal Entry This is a hard one. But it’s been coming. I try to push it down. “Later later later I’ll write about it...

Is that how you want to spend your life?

July 17, 2018 Email to Mr. Nashville I'm in torment because I'm in torment. Not because of you. But you're not helping. I'm in desperate...

Impressions at the Psych Hospital - Part II

September 19, 2022 Writings from the Nuthouse, Redux (From 9/6/2022 notes) It's amazing what is most important in a psych hospital. First...

What is TMS? (a bit boring but kinda interesting)

I’m undergoing my third round of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Here's a link to a short video that explains the procedure. TMS...