Category: My Life
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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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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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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…
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Avoided a Manic Episode, Nothing is Achieved Quickly
In July or August, I had a lot of things going on. I felt anxious and depressed. It may have started with an injury and not being able to skate. Then, in late August, some insomnia switched it to mania. I started thinking that all things were possible, I was going to be a rock…
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Mental Health Awareness Month and About Me
Here’s a link that I wrote for NAMI right before the pandemic started. https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/January-2020/Coping-with-Schizoaffective-Disorder I have not helped others as I planned too. I was relatively healthy during the pandemic but like everyone else had anxiety and trauma. I still feel the same way that ‘what if’ mentalities are counterproductive for people with mental illness.…
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Skating, reading, and a Weak Attempt at Entrepreneurship #readskatelove, and Vids
Over three weeks have passed since my last post. The perception of time remains distorted compared to life before COVID. I’ll start with the shop I posted on my blog. I’ve done this before, but the process of setting up a store took me five hours. Through the hosting site Bluehost, I had to set…
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Winter Thinking: How to Spend One’s Time
Metamucil is the most critical daily supplement I take in this picture, but the other two are essential as well. In June of 2022, I had a health scare that I went to the ER for, which put me on this middle-aged man regimen. It feels so long ago, even though it’s less than a…