Do not find things to do in the middle of the night to fight insomnia. The basement is a dangerous place for you- you budding pyromaniac. Those boxes of old patterns are extremely flammable. Cleaning with fire is a bit drastic. Water is not enough when they spill flaming from the wood burning stove. Asbestos…
Doesn't grief add fuel to the smoldering fire of depression? Creating smoke and noxious fumes you can't help but cry to douse the blaze. With help, a chemical spray keeps the flames at bay. Read the disclaimer though trials may prove only to be a temporary measure. Intensive work with a LISW, MISW, MSW, LCSW,…
Poison Ivy or Poison Oak The image from my last post The normal teenage experience was either poison ivy or poison oak from the local Metropark. I had been immune to it or so I thought. I was arrogant and I had to pay the price. Fifteen years of manual removal of the three armed…
Friday's anxiety attack was inevitable Saturday's shutdown was to be expected Sunday's outcome is undetermined. Friday, after losing an important thing, tearing the house apart looking for it and finally finding it in the first room I looked, was a sign. The end is near. (I know I could have said nigh, but come…
She screamed in my ear and I jumped five pages toward consciousness. Something, something, something ran across my hip, over my thigh and jumped off my knee before I could stop it my crawling dream had woken me. The roar of reality rumbled as an image of squirming twisted thoughts tumbled over and over trapped in…
I'm sinking, my thoughts pulling me under Thanks for the new improved chemical imbalance drugs (said sarcastically, with shiny enthusiasm and positive energy!!) I'm like an iceberg now Big ass, small torso, tiny dino brain What was wrong with me that made sedation necessary? Oh right, I was traumatized by my life. These pills make…
Amanuensis Sobriquet-Reverie 