Author: M.C. Allison
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Paint 48 8×10’s and more NYE goals
Making fantastical New Year’s Eve goals has been a tradition of mine. That and my birthdays seem to be the times I let my imagination go wild. In 2024, I had a setback of a psychotic episode with nine days in the hospital. I have not bounced back with vigor yet, but I’m on track…
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Read and Absorb This Art Book on Van Gogh
Book: Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings by Ingo F Walther. ISBN: 978-3836557153 I bought this book on Van Gogh last May at a museum in Boston. I flipped through it, and then it sat on my bookshelf for a while. When I got psychosis in early August, I did not paint much. In October, I…
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Schizo-Affective or Bipolar, Does it Matter? And updates.
Four months have passed since I was hospitalized for nine days. As I posted before, I called the EMT on myself. The experience in the hospital was much better than in 2016 because I was compliant, and I knew I had a problem. Insomnia triggered it, and this time around, I did not have delusions…
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I May Not Publish Anything Until I Retire, and I’m only 47
After some thought, I decided I’m not going to try to publish anything for a while. I always liked the fact that the author Frank McCourt did not publish memoirs until he retired in his 60s, after a career as a teacher in the Bronx. I mentioned this as I think memoirs in general are…
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Game Changer for the better, calling EMT on Myself twice in 3 days.
The religious trinket above may have given me a sleepless night on Thursday, July 25th. But a good sleepless night filled with thought. Basically, at a restaurant in Howard beach late at night a kind stranger overheard my conversation with a friend. He ended up telling this stranger we were here because I was having…