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Windows 8 Will Be On Sale Here in a Few Weeks…
Right around the end of October, I think it is October 26, the newest version of Windows will begin to sell. It is designed partly with tablets in mind.  You can also order a touch screen monitor to enjoy its tablet features. I am not going to upgrade the computers at the Literacy Center unless they give incredibly good multi-license educational discounts. Are you going to upgrade?  I am exceptionally excited and keen about it. I always was an early adopter about such things and will weather the growing pains that ensue.  I want to be right in the thick of it – head in first.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 11, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Down Your Gullet Dear Soul!
I woke up ravenously hungry at 3am.  Maggie was practically under my arm keeping warm.. “You hungry doll?” I asked Maggie who was laying next to me in the bed as I turned on my bedside lamp. My stomach was grumbling in extreme protest. Maggie jumped off the bed knowing the word hungry very well.  Dog food is one thing, but Andrew prepared food is whole other thing indeed.  Maggie and I both seem to love a traditional Southern breakfast. Hell, who am I kidding?  Maggie will eat just about anything dead or alive. Maggie's food palette is just not very avant-garde or complicated. I turned the heating a...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 11, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Windows 8 Don’t Forsake Me…
Right around the end of October, I think it is October 26, the newest version of Windows will begin to sell. It is designed partly with Windows 8 tablets in mind.  You can also order a touch screen monitor to enjoy its tablet features, but they are kind of pricey right now. Hopefully supply will increase with demand and the prices will drop I am not going to upgrade the computers at the Literacy Center unless they give incredibly good multi-license educational discounts. Are you going to upgrade?  I am exceptionally excited and keen about it. I always was an early adopter about such things and will weather the gr...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 11, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

A driven mother:Mylan Pharmaceuticals: The Emails, U-Turns and Denials
Source: soulful sepulcher - October 10, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

She’s A Good Gal and She’s Also a Hungry Gal…
It was 5:00am and my main focus for me this morning was getting Maggie something to eat. My father forgot to bring her food yet again last night which was not very surprising.  I gave Maggie some delicious deli shaved ham and slices of cheese to get her through last night. I had told my mother to leave a bag of Maggie's dog food on their back porch.  I would get it when I got my sodas this morning. Like carefully planned clockwork, my mother pulled through.  She’s a stickler for the details. A big bag of Maggie’s Purina One was on the porch along with my six Cokes for the day and my daily pack of Doral l...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 10, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Let's Get Down To It Now
So, I just made my blog private.  I hope I can learn to write for myself again and not worry about what others are thinking, if I need to explain things, and be more open.  I said I wasn't, but I really did worry about who was reading it, if anyone had found me, mainly Mark's sister.  She's so sour, so negative, yet I know she's not really.  I saw her with Mark's cousin's wife, and she was happy with her, friendly, like a nice person, laughing and joking, yet she's never been that way with me.  I was like, "wow, she can actually be a good friend, I thought she was just a bitter person", but she's n...
Source: bipolar.and.me - October 9, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Now I've Said What I Wanted to Say
Monday - Entry 7:I spent Columbus Day being sick, which was no different than how I spent the last few days, or even the last two weeks. This cold has its claws deep within me and simply will not release its grip. I plod along and wonder when I will finally feel better.Today's hardest challenge was getting the Brownie & Leprechaun to do something—anything—besides watching TV. I tried. I truly did, but despite my general failure at getting them to enrich their minds with reading, I did eventually read to the Brownie. I did have wonderful conversations with the Elf & Leprechaun. Dinner was supervised. Quarrels were diffu...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 9, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling Family Source Type: blogs

Jack Frost Nipping at My Windows…
Boy, it sure was chilly this morning as Maggie and I set out for our walk.  I think it was 45 degrees when Maggie and I left the house. I planned ahead and wore a warm and thick hoodie and my favorite pair of flannel lined jeans. I will have to admit it was invigorating, though.  It also was if someone pushed the turbo button on Maggie.  She was having the time of her life as we went about our meet and greet sessions with the neighborhood dogs.. She certainly is feeling her oats these days. I guess she just must feel better. When we got home, I just cooked some simple buttery grits and strawberry preserves o...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 9, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

A Bittersweet Moment in my Memory…
To those of you new to my blog.  Joyce was my next door neighbor for many years.  She had a very acute form of bi-polar disorder.  Extremely acute to the point of discombobulating madness.. We struck up an instant friendship when we learned we each both had mental problems in the past.  Joyce’s sister, Janice, told me Joyce would have been 66 years old yesterday.  Joyce was my buddy who could understand what I was going through when I was in the throes of my mental illness.  It was ironic that her camellia was blooming this week.  I thought it was a fitting beautiful thing for a very s...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 9, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Goodbye For Now, But Not Forever.
For any reader who happens to come across this post in the next twelve hours or so, I've decided to take my blog private.  It has nothing to do with being paranoid about someone finding it or the usual reasons I read that people take their blogs offline or delete them, which I'm not about to do.  The reason I started this blog was to journal - for me alone.  For a long time now, while yes, I do journal for myself, what I'm feeling, what I'm doing, and as honestly as I can, there is always in the back of mind the gnawing notion that other people may be reading it.  When they do, what do they need to know...
Source: bipolar.and.me - October 8, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Chicago - Not An Update
Right this very *moment*, I'm okay.  I'm not desperately lonely.  Mark is home for the weekend so I've done all sorts of things, but he leaves in the morning, and I'll once again be alone for the week with no friends.  By the time he gets home, I'll feel like the loneliest girl in the world.  I know that sounds so needy and codependant, and I'm not desperate for my husband to be here, I'm just wanting socialization in general.  Sure, I love being around my husband, but it would help things a lot, I mean a HUGE lot, if I had friends I could do things with during the week when he was gone.  I'm ...
Source: bipolar.and.me - October 8, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Make Yourself Comfortable Maggie…
Maggie has almost single handedly destroyed my late grandmother’s couch – the pillows are all contorted and out of shape. It’s okay, though.  I can always buy another couch.  I can’t buy another Maggie. The only thing I would miss about the couch is that it folds out into a bed.                     Why I can never make up my bed before volunteering. Sometimes, Maggie doesn’t get out of the bed until noon.                     What possessed my parents to paint their house such a hideous color?  It l...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 8, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Happy Happy Happy!!!!!
I have never been this happy and excited in my whole life!  Mr. R. and I are getting a house together, a big house with three double bedrooms and a garden. I am so SO excited. We have also been talking about getting some kittens to live with us and maybe (if I am not too old) we may grow a little person.  There has even been talk of rings and ceremonies.  I am so excited I can hardly control
Source: Social Anxiety and Bipolar Diary of Annie - October 8, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Annie Source Type: blogs

Moving Toward "Postbipolar" - Is It Possible?
Two anniversaries this week: Seven years here at HeathCentral and six years since the publication of my book, “Living Well With Depression and Bipolar Disorder.” Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.   It’s funny. If I were to update my book, I would make very few revisions. Years later, I stand fully behind it. Yet if I were to write a new book from scratch, it would be very different. What gives?   Back...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - October 7, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

I am Smitten with the Lovely Dollar General Lady…
I unleashed the hounds this morning when I should have been in bed sleeping.  Maggie went flying out my front door with me in tow.  Who runs this dog and pony show? Certainly not I. I am just a lackey or pawn. We walked all the way over to the neighborhood that I refer to as “the bottoms” or “the land of the big menacing dogs”. When we got home, I cooked the Maggins and I some bacon, grits, and toast. Maggie got beside herself at the prospect of getting bacon which I crumbled up in her grits. The smell of that bacon frying on the stove just about drove Maggie crazy. The house will smell like fried bacon f...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 7, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Italiano Served Right …
I’ve been spending much of the evening preparing spaghetti and meat sauce. I used my mother’s recipe and it still surprises me that it calls for a small amount of chili powder which gives the sauce a coy but tasty quality. Spaghetti also is such a comfort food to me. My sister, my brother, and I would run and clamor for the kitchen table on spaghetti nights hoping to be the first served. When I cook spaghetti, it also always reminds me of my good blogging friend Annabel. I fixed up a plate for my mother as well.  She will be quite surprised when I take it to her in a moment; She adores spaghetti.The bread you see...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 7, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Voting Issues - The Bipolar Question of the Week
You may have noticed that a Presidential election campaign is underway in the US. Thank heaven they only take place once every four years. Our fragile psyches weren’t exactly built for this.   Because our politics tend to be a reflection of our core personal values, it is way too easy to get over-involved emotionally. Politicians and the media have exploited this tendency since way before the wheel was invented. Lies and...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - October 6, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

Where Charlie Treads My Father is Not Too Far To Follow…
“Your father and I are going to get something to eat,” Charlie said upon me answering my new Galaxy III S cell phone at lunch. “What do you want me to get you?” Now, this was a nice surprise.  A very nice surprise. Kind of a Southern “Praise the Lord” event. “Just surprise me like you normally do,” I told Charlie. ”You know I will eat anything.” I really was quite famished at the mention of getting something to eat. I had visions of it raining Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. Charlie brought Popeye’s which has just opened a week ago just above dad’s former pharmacy.  I am not too big on Caj...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 6, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Let’s All Walk for Good Health…
My vegan princess is trying to run 3 to 4 miles every morning. We talked shortly before I retired to bed last night. “I’ve sort of reached a plateau,” she told me frustratingly. “I can’t get past 4 miles.” “You would just be better off speed walking that distance,” I told her last night. “Running is very hard on your joints.” She blew me off faster than a leaf on a windy fall day. She asked me if I was still walking Maggie every morning. “Of course,” I replied. “We walk about 3 or 4 miles every morning. Maggie enjoys every minute of it.” “What did you weigh last night?” she then asked me. �...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 6, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Where Charlie Treads My Father is Not Too Far Behind…
“Your father and I are going to get something to eat,” Charlie said upon me answering my new Galaxy S III cell phone at lunch. “What do you want me to get you?” Now, this was a nice surprise.  A very nice surprise indeed. Kind of a Southern “Praise the Lord” event. “Just surprise me like you normally do,” I told Charlie. ”You know I will eat anything.” I really was quite famished at the mention of getting something to eat. I had visions of it raining down Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. Charlie brought Popeye’s which has just opened a week ago just above dad’s former pharmacy.  I am not to...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 6, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Weather?
I don't know if it is the change is weather or just because it is a busy time of year, but boy have a been in an anti-social mood lately. Not only do I hardly feel like visiting with people, but I am more irritable. I have little to no patience. Yes, I am back on my normal dosage of meds. I think I miss my quit morning routine of sitting at SB and catching up on the "gossip", reading, or even
Source: Parenting with a mental illness - October 6, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Brony Source Type: blogs

Abuse in Mental Health Care? Surely Not!
The BBC's Focus on Africa TV programme has uncovered a number of abuses in a mental health institution in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. When asked why the conditions were so poor, the Medical Director replied that hospitals are seriously challenged - financially, logistically, and so on, and that what you are seeing is probably the best that you can get under the circumstances.  He also added that Mental Health services have not been a priority.And why would they be?  It's easy to neglect vulnerable people when no one cares about them.  Who will notice?  Especially when they have been dropped off by...
Source: The Wife of a Schizophrenic - October 5, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

One Foot in Front of the Other…
I can get used to this walking in the cold I think.  Maggie and I just got back from a perfectly enjoyable walk even though it was in the forties temperature wise and extremely humid.  I bundled up, though, paying homage to my cold natured leanings. The air smelled so clean and fresh this early morning. The only stirring thing that could be heard was a whip-o-will down by the cemetery.  It is such a lonesome and mournful sound that will tug on your heartstrings if you listen to it for a few moments. It harkens back to my homeless days when I would hear one while I was laying in my tent and sleeping bag at ni...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 5, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Yeah, I’d Say Maggie is Glad to be Home!
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 5, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Yeah! Ham! (sarcasm)
Myself complaining about having ham all the time is akin to the very overweight and rotund “The Homeless Guy” complaining about having to eat too much chicken at the homeless shelters. Tonight’s fried okra was the best Helen has ever cooked hands down.  The white stuff is lye bleached hominy.  It is sort of an acquired taste. Turnip greens are hiding behind the cornbread. Not pictured is a baked sweet potato on which Helen melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. For dessert was Helen’s pineapple upside down cake. I could’ve eaten three slices, but I held myself only to one.  I am saving one for b...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 5, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Sayonara Facebook…
I got an email today saying they finally deleted my account on Facebook.  I sighed with relief having wanted that for a long time.  I tried to log in and couldn’t so that was a good sign – the server says the account had been deactivated and deleted. This process has taken over 14 days to complete if you can believe it.  An astute Berryvox said it was probably just a cooling off period. Facebook was just an entirely very, very dangerous place with me talking honestly about my mental illnesses and various ailments and addictions to people who live just a block over from me and the countless others who liv...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 5, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Talk About Suicide?
I read a post today from a bipolar blogger who suggested that people should talk about suicide more, that one in ten people have considered it at one point.  Yes, I agree, we should talk about it, I absolutely couldn't agree more with her, but here's the thing...Who exactly would I talk to if I felt suicidal?  Sure, a medical professional, but other than that, who?  No one that I know could possibly understand what it feels like to be at that level of depression, where you're in so much pain that you just want it to end and it soothes you with the mere thought of ending it all, which becomes an obsession.&nb...
Source: bipolar.and.me - October 4, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

What Is My Story, and Am I Telling It Effectively?
Thursday - Entry 6:“Find your theme, then share it.”This seemingly simple advice was given out by a social media expert for Instagram users—a service I use, but with no impact. I take what I think are important pictures or images with great interest, yet I can't get others to take notice. I have tried many things such as littering my post with hashtags, using fancy filters, creatively editing with photo apps, and captions with text. The most feedback I have ever seen is about 17 likes before the photo drifts away into obscurity.Often I wonder just why I use the service; I could post pictures to Twitter with less effo...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 4, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling ADHD Source Type: blogs

6:17am Destination Home From Neighborhood…
Maggie was really feeling her oats this morning as we finished up her walk.  It was another very chilly morning, but I was in an interesting mood -- eager to brave all odds and discomforts. I was thoroughly enjoying the walk myself this morning.  I felt so terrible yesterday that today, anything, was a blessing as I felt 100 percent better. Mental illness? Physical ailment?  I guess we will never know. The fickle winds of mental illness can lead us down turgid paths as we try to keep our heads above water.  Dad was putting Maggie’s food in her food bowl last night as I told him to wait before putting...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 4, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Smartphones and Driving Don't Mix!
I got into a car accident today.  Not a major one, a fender bender, but it shook me up pretty badly.  I was on a major freeway on my way to school and the traffic was stop and go, so I was fiddling with my iphone as usual.  I wasn't texting, but that wouldn't be abnormal for me in stop and go traffic, but I was taking my eyes off the road for what I thought was a nanosecond at a time and then looking right up again.  When I looked up the last time, even though I couldn't have been going more than five miles an hour, I didn't have time to stop when I slammed on the breaks and hit the car i...
Source: bipolar.and.me - October 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Balancing Acts: Building Accountable Communities of Care
Maryse writes about radical mental health, healing justice, Icarus history, OWS organizing, peer support, and holding each other and our movements accountable with love. --   There is a reckoning period, I think, early on in the political life of most organizers. It's a moment when we realize the enormity of the harm done, the systems that work to continue this harm, and the endless struggle required to uproot this cycle of oppression and violence. That realization hits us hard and heavy. For me, for years, I walked around with a weight, a hopelessness where my only defense was to keep fighting back. Where the way me ...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - October 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: silverelf Tags: 10thanniversary Source Type: blogs

Posting to Hayley of Paramore…
Nothing like listening to a little punk rock Paramore to bring the day in right. I keep saying Maggie and I are going to start walking in the afternoons, but our old schedule of early mornings is retained. Maggie is usually sitting by the piano before or after breakfast. “Hurry up human, Please?” she seems to be saying when she does this – wagging her tail of course. She wants to keep the old routines intact. I am still waking up at 4:00am like clockwork as well. She makes sure of that. Temper the Overindulgence… I was going to start eating at the Waffle House every early morning, but really can’t afford it. ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Flotsam and Jetsam…
I feel like flotsam and jetsam on the ebb and flow of life – refuse on the playground of the living. Yes, I have very severe mental problems. Most people generally don’t get disability on the first try like I did without a lawyer. That was a pretty good sign that something was amiss upstairs. I will admit to it. I am also ashamed of it. It is my scarlet letter. I don’t talk about my mental problems much, but I rarely, if ever, get sick in a more traditional sense which I think has happened the last two days.  If I don’t post tomorrow then I am just resting.  I felt like the dregs of society all day today...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 3, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Abbott to pay $700 million: off-label marketing of Depakote
Source: soulful sepulcher - October 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

A Lot of Nothing to Say
Mark and I had a good marriage counseling session, and the therapist didn't bring up the last session I went to where I had vowed never to go back and see her.  When we go in to see her and there's nothing to say, I don't even know why we're there except Mark wants to go.  She asked if we wanted to wait six weeks to come back, and he said that sounded good.  I thought - why don't we just discontinue this whole thing?  I so very much hate going, but if I were the one who wanted to go, I would only hope that Mark would be willing, so, I'm going.We went to a comedy club to see a hypnotist because I think c...
Source: bipolar.and.me - October 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Too Many Extraneous Things On My Plate…
It is 7:00am on a Tuesday morning at the beginning of October. Autumn is starting to encroach upon the Deep South.  The Dogwoods are now turning beautiful hues of orange and red. The crepe myrtles have shown their summer’s end blooms. The Chimney swifts have all flown south to their summer home of Argentina. The Mag-Dawg and I have been on her walk which she was very insistent about this morning despite the very cool 52 degree temperatures.  How could I tell her no after all she’s been through? The weather played nice much to my surprise with a beautiful sunrise as we passed the Elementary school down from m...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Time Tells…
A rough day comes to an end. I am glad to see it go and go bye. I felt mentally terrible today. I am busy at the moment popping Clonopin and drinking sugary lemonade in an attempt to self medicate – my very own personal Molotov cocktail. Maggie’s already in the bed curled up on one of the pillows as she is prone to do these days. She will look up as I walk by the bedroom door.  I can only guess that she hopes I come soon. Once the dust settles of her homecoming, things will get back to normal around here.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 2, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

A Good Old Fashioned Conniption Fit…
Maggie would be having a conniption fit if she knew what I am doing this morning.  I just got finished eating a fluffy and cheesy ham and cheese omelet at the Waffle House.  2am arrived and I could sleep no more, and I was also famished. My sleeping habits will soon moderate in the next few weeks I hope. “I’d like the ham and cheese omelet platter and an extra order of toast and bacon,” I told my waitress. “You must be hungry!” she said with a big toothy grin and then she left to go get my precious soda. You know? As old as I am, I cannot remember ever eating a waffle.  Maybe I will try one on my ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

My meditation Stats
Above is a screenshot from my iPhone meditation App - Insight Timer - which I've been using for just under 2 years. Although I've done over 300 sessions, when I tell people my average meditation time is 12 minutes, lots react in a sort of dismissive way that its not very long at all. The weird thing I've noticed is that the people that react like this are the ones that dont meditate, whereas the people that have actually meditated for a while are always very congratulatory... Anyways, I've said it before and I'll say it again: In our increasingly distracted and disembodied world, meditation is more critical than ever. Th...
Source: BiPolar Daily(ish) - October 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: BiPolar Guy Source Type: blogs

Home Sweet Home…
My fatal flaw is letting my father get involved with my mental healthcare again.  Dangerous waters are being tread upon. He insisted on going today and I let him come. I just want him to be proud of me. “He’s been feeling lots of anxiety,” my father told my doctor speaking for me at one point. “We’ll up the amount of Clonopin he is taking to an extra milligram a day,” my doctor responded looking over his glasses at my father. Clonopin is similar to Xanax and Valium -- all benzodiazepines. The visit didn’t take long and I now have 6 months before I go back. For that, I was relieved and thankful. It must m...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - October 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Dragon's Den and beyond
So, I just finished watching Dragon's Den Canada, and once again I find myself questioning why some people succeed and others fail. They had a couple come on with a company called Steeped Tea, which made 1.3 Million last year. With Total Teas, I am over $8000 in debt. I know what some of my errors were, but I did try. I just couldn't seem to book parties. And the few that I did ended up costing
Source: Parenting with a mental illness - October 1, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Brony Source Type: blogs

Ketamine for Bipolar Depression?
“Ketamine improved bipolar depression within minutes, study suggests,” read the headline in the May 30 Science Daily. The real story is far more complicated. Read on:   A team of researchers at the NIMH recruited 15 bipolar patients with depression (who were already on a mood stabilizer) and administered them either a small single intravenous dose of ketamine or a placebo. Two weeks later, the subjects were “crossed...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - September 30, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

Paramore…
Sunday Morning Music… It’s not often I will fall in love with a punk/heavy metal band, but I did with Paramore. I can listen to the song Conspiracy on the Album All We Know is Falling over and over. Their latest album Brand New Eyes is wonderful as well.  The track The Only Exception from that album is another song you will also enjoy very much.  It is truly haunting.   All Gassed Up and Ready to Roll… “Let’s go fill our cars up with gas,” my father said on a whim late last night on this unscheduled nightly visit. I had already been to Fat’s earlier for some snacks.  Why not go again? I l...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - September 30, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Erratum: Impact of bacterial colonization on exhaled inflammatory markers in wheezing preschool children
Unfortunately, an error occurred in the above paper. The second sentence in the caption of figure 1 should read: 'Regulatory T ( T reg ) cells suppress both T helper (Th) 1 and (Th) 2 mediated immune responses'.
Source: Journal of Breath Research - September 30, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Kim D G van de Kant, Ester M M Klaassen, Koen J van Aerde, Jan Damoiseaux, Cathrien A Bruggeman, Foekje F Stelma, Ellen E Stobberingh, Jean W M Muris, Quirijn Jöbsis, Onno C P van Schayck and Edward Dompeling Source Type: research

The Disability Challenge: The Bipolar Question of the Week
I can use your help, here. A friend of mine emailed me an eye-opening CNS story which reports that, according to the Social Security Administration, 8,575,544 workers collected federal disability benefits at the end of 2011, including 1,304,85 (15 percent, one in six) with mood disorders.   On reflection, the numbers are hardly surprising. According to the World Health Organization, depression is on track to be the world’s...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - September 29, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

I Love Granny Smith…
This is what Helen cooked for our dessert yesterday.  They were just some store bought apple turnovers, but they turned out delicious. I had some vanilla ice cream with mine.       Dawn earlier this morning.  I was actually up early enough on a Saturday to catch this shot. The magical hour was well underway.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - September 29, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Tastier than a Partridge in a Pear Tree…
My father bought a new Weber grill today and he said it was my job to come show him how to “turn the damn thing on”.  I laughed merrily and hurried over to my parent's house to impart in some tasty vittles. Dad grilled some wonderfully marinated chicken breasts and then steamed a medley of marinated vegetables in aluminum foil packets on the grill. My mother’s job was to make and prepare salads and a vinaigrette dressing. She also had to butter and toast some barbeque bread. It was a very tasty meal. My father has a flair for cooking that he didn't know he had until my mother got sick and could no longer cook. ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - September 29, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

I Love Granny Smith and Her Green Apples…
This is what Helen cooked for our dessert yesterday.  “Those things took forever to cook,” Helen said when she delivered yesterday’s supper. They were just some store bought apple turnover pastries, but they turned out to be very delicious. I had some Breyer's vanilla bean ice cream with mine while they were still warm.     Dawn arriving early this morning.  I was actually up early enough on a Saturday morning to catch this shot. The magical hour was well underway. (terrible photo)       Maggie can do some serious relaxing when she sets her mind to it. I do hope she looks better w...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - September 29, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

So Lonely
I just walk through each day, alone.  I get up, alone.  I go to school for three hours, come home, alone.  Spend the rest of the day, alone.  My husband comes home usually on Thursday night, but this week, tonight, late Friday, probably around 10:00p, he'll be home.  And he'll leave again first thing Monday morning.  I've been TRYING to reach out to my old friends.  I've been trying to make new friends.  I'm just tired of getting rejected or blown off.  And I'm tired of being alone.  I'm not blaming my husband.  He's trying to move us to Chicago so we'll all be togethe...
Source: bipolar.and.me - September 28, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Depression Had Taken Too Deeply a Hold
Morning Blues Friday - Entry 5:I believe it is high time for me to acknowledge that my depression is out of control. I have been trying the past few weeks since the lay off to keep it at bay, but I'm not making any progress. I'm simply sad all of the time. I am too depressed to write my book or draw. I'm too depressed to clean. I only stir to life when the girls arrive. Then responsibilities force me to move and function. And I still don't write or draw.This is not living.I woke up this morning contemplating suicide. In the same moment I thought about death, I realized that the Depression had taken too deeply a hold.One t...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 28, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Writing Depression Family Source Type: blogs