Things have become so strange lately. It’s 2:00 AM and I’m totally and completely wired. I like to get up at 4:00, but 2 hours of sleep is insane. I’ll sleep in until 6. When I get like this I can’t take my Ambien, because if it doesn’t put me to [...]
Police shoot, kill bipolar man in standoff
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Dec. 22 (UPI) — An investigation began Monday into a police shooting of a 25-year-old man with a history of bipolar mental illness in an apartment standoff west of Toronto.
Police in Mississauga received 911 calls around 1 a.m. Sunday about a man shouting and throwing things from [...]
Yesterday I posted a quote by a hero of mine, Billy Joe Shaver. It said “If you tempt God long enough, he’ll take you.” It’s a great quote, but much more meaningful taken in context.
Billy Joe Shaver is one of my musical favorites. He’s a country outlaw, he’s written literally hundreds [...]
My wife put together a few of the most thoughtful Christmas gifts I’ve ever heard of. For Ryan’s brothers and his girlfriend she put together picture albums. Pictures of each of them and Ryan. This was no small undertaking, each album held two to four hundred pictures, and she filled each [...]
“If you tempt God long enough, he’ll take you.”
Billy Joe Shaver
Screening hot line, Web site can help with holiday blues
I admit to being a cynic, it goes deep into my being. So is it any surprise that the above article from The Stars and Stripes sets my spider-sense to tingling? How about this:
Officials with Boston-based Screening for Mental Health Inc. work with the [...]
Cocaine use, manic phase cited in wrong-way fatal 590 crash
A clinical pharmacist testified Tuesday that Herman H. Bank lacked adequate insight and judgment into the consequences of his actions on the night he is accused of driving his car the wrong way on I-590 and killing two people.
“According to his history, he engages in cocaine [...]
The past, when viewed in hindsight through a bipolar disorder lens, is invalidated. Sad, but true.
I cannot go to church since Ryan’s death. I can’t keep it together emotionally. I’m trembling, sniffling, tears running down my cheeks. People are staring at me, my kids are embarrassed, I finally have to leave. Tonight, I had another reason. My daughter sang a solo, The Magnificat, that was [...]
There’s something missing inside of me. I’m not sure what, but it’s not there. No matter how much I eat, I can’t fill that missing part. And believe me, I’m trying. Obsessively. My coworkers have commented on the large bags of candy, the boxes of cookies, the ever present large [...]
