Welcome, readers! Or, as I call you “Warriors” because we are all warriors together in our quest for better mental health.
The previous 6 posts are curated content from my personal Facebook. I’ve been meaning to pick some out and copy them over to the blog for more general consumption, and thankfully I have a great friend who did just that and sent the links to me for easy access. I am genuinely touched at the effort she put in because I’ve been really depressed and overwhelmed for a couple of weeks now and it seemed insurmountable.
I kept putting off “Starting the Blog” because it seemed like a giant task to go back and pick some things out to get started. I hesitated to know exactly what information about myself to share.
I guess the relevant bits are this: It’s 2018 and I just turned 42 years old a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been with the same man since January 1996 and we got married in May 2001. We have a 12 year old daughter together and we had our son (born too soon) in October 2004. We both work full-time. I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder I in October 2002 and this blog will primarily be about how I deal with my busy, complicated life in spite of my mental illness and the challenges it presents.