If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going

A year ago, when my parents sold the house my sister and I grew up in, and moved into one of those new Over 55 retirement communities that a...

Wishing everyone a very happy Easter and Passover holiday. May your families be happy and healthy, and everyone gets a chocolate bunny. P...

My father is dying. It could be weeks, months, or days or hours. We don't know. I have to admit, I am cringing every time the phone ri...

I will be spending most of the day with the urologist, to figure out why I am having problems urinating. Bladder and kidney tests, blood wor...

Congratulations to Robert Whitaker, author of "Anatomy of an Epidemic", and 'Mad in America", for being one of the few re...

I’m sitting in my psychiatrist’s office in an overstuffed beige wing chair. It reminds me of Archie Bunker’s chair. My mother is near me s...

It's been a backslide weekend.  I'm still sober... so it wasn't that kind of backslide. It was my health. I am having serious pr...

Therese Bouchard of  Beyond Blue  had a gem earlier this month I must have missed.  It was on  Suicidal Ideation. I think I am the Queen o...

Lately, my writing has been sh*t. I know that, and it upsets me. It seems that since November when my kidneys failed, it's been impossib...

It's been a strange weekend. Depression, anhedonia, unable to get out of bed, unable to eat. Thoughts getting blacker and blacker. I...