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My Mad Fat Diary, a ‘breath of fresh air’ says @Rethink_ ‘s Brian. #ukmh #MentalHealth
Brian Semple in The Independent Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Snow in the Local Forecast…
The Southern Bread and Milk Consortium told the National Weather Service to go ahead with Operation Pandemonium and add a mention of snow in the forecast. I will be happily sitting at home eating my easy-open Chef Boyardee beeferoni out of its can with a plastic spoon as grocery store insanity ensues. Stranger Things Have Happened… Did you know Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians put out a third album in 2006? I didn’t either. I found it earlier today by shear luck online and have been mesmerized by it since. You’ve just got to check out the song No Deniro.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Sad Sounds in a Cemetery…
I was already awake this morning at 5am as I lay in bed. The house was whisper quiet as I was listening to a Whip-o-will far down towards the cemetery and it was making me feel supremely lonesome. It is such a sad, isolated and forlorn sound. A few moments later Maggie jumped on the bed doing her “lets go for a walk” wiggling routine. Her tail was wagging a hundred miles an hour. I smiled and got dressed and away Maggie and I went for a routine, run-of-the-mill walk. Once again, like a broken record, us creatures of habit Maggie and I walked down to the Circle K on the corner of Gilmer Avenue. I...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Your Life Misdiagnosed with Unipolar Depression - The Bipolar Question of the Week
Yesterday, in a post, The DSM-5 and Bipolar, I observed that the DSM-5 - due out in May this year - does not address a very critical issue in our lives, namely doctors misdiagnosing those in the bipolar spectrum with unipolar depression. Most of you know from first-hand experience what I am talking about: Our doctors take our outward depression at face value, fail to probe for signs of bipolar, diagnose us with unipolar depression, and send us...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

Work Capability Assessment Faces Court Challenge
Reblogged from the void: A judicial review into the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) begins tomorrows when two members of the Mental Health Resistance Network will argue that the process is discriminatory towards people with mental health conditions. A protest in support has been called outside the hearing on Wednesday 16th January at noon, head for the Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London WC2A 2LL - and spread the word. Read more… 218 more words Mental Health Challenge for WCA
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

How #GPs Could End the ‘#Atos Death Toll’. #wca #disability #mh #ukmh
The Void Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

@TimeToChange have a new campaign. #MentalHealth #Stigma #Discrimination #mh
Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The Hidden Economic And Social Cost Of Welfare Reform – A Spartacus Report. #mh #disability
Emergency Stop Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Jacqui Dillon – ‘The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo’ #MentalHealth
Excellent Article from Jacqui Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

‘Two regulations ‘could hold the key to winning #ESA appeals’ #wca #hardesthit #disability #mh
Click Article Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

#DWP and Housing Benefit. Useful guide to discretionary payments. #hardesthit #mh #disability
DWP Guide To Discretionary Housing Payments Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Harmful trolling sparks outrage. #MentalHealth #mh #JustinBieber
WHY would they? Read more Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Author calls for New Year Honours for folks with #MentalHealth
Read Clare Allan Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

MP’s to publish #MentalHealth Personal Essays. #mh
Making Up Their Minds Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

‘Only A Tenner.’ David’s Journey Into Exclusion. #Poverty #Unemployment #mh
This short piece follows a conversation with a chap I met on a bus. I hope I have represented David’s feelings and words correctly in this semi-fictional story of his journey into exclusion from the world of Dine for 2 for a £10. (All details of benefits, work experience and final thoughts, are in Davids own words, and reproduced with his permission) “And it was busy, absolutely packed even. A tangle of shopping trolleys their distracted drivers intent. They tutted, sighed and grabbed at shiny packets and colourful boxes, and I just had to know, even if that knowledge would leave me desolate, so I ventured in....
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: *Special Guest Writers* Source Type: blogs

#TwentalHealthAwards 2013 – The Winners Are Announced. #MentalHealth #CheckItOut
Those deserving winners. Patient Experience Winner: @Sectioned Recovery Winner: @BPDFFS Campaigning Winner: @Rethink Subversive Winner: @Sectioned Informative Winner: @MarkOneinFour Humorous Winner: @IThinkIAmCarrie Helpful Winner: @VictoriaBetton Neurodiversity Winner: @BillWongOT Psychiatry Joint Winners: @RCPsych, @RCPscychScot and @PsychTimes Psychology Winner: @PsychologyNow Nursing Winner: @nurse_w_glasses Social Work Winner: @Ermintrude2 Occupational Therapy Winner: @ClaireOT Academic Joint Winners: @Neuro_Skeptic and @Mental_Elf Carer Winner: @spareribBellamy Check Out ‘The World Of Mentalists...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Observations about Chicago
Before bed tonight, I walked the dog and it was 19 degrees outside. I didn't comprehend what that would be like in the WINDY CITY until I got outside - holy hell! People live like this? And survive? I don't know why it seemed so very cold, I've run in 25 degree weather in Dallas, but 19 and windy at night was something I was not prepared for at all! Mark ran this morning when it was a little bit icy on the roads - I thought he was crazy, but he's been coming to Chicago and running for five years now so he's used to the weather. I've been trying to figure out what people WEAR here in the winter. ...
Source: bipolar.and.me - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

The Cavalry Arrives…
When Maggie saw Charlie pull up in front of the house she went nuts with joy. Charlie was here with a dinner care package as he called it and Maggie had a big bag of table scraps to eat.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Physiology and biochemistry of human subjects during entrapment
A classification of various categories of entrapped people under the ruins of collapsed buildings after earthquakes, technical failures or explosions is proposed. Type and degree of injury at the moment of building collapse and duration of entrapment are the two basic parameters in this classification. The aim is to provide sources and types of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can be used for establishing a new method for locating entrapped victims based on human chemical signatures. Potential target compounds, among others, are ammonia, acetone, isoprene, dimethylsulfide, dimethyldisulfide and trimethylamine. ...
Source: Journal of Breath Research - January 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: A Agapiou, K Mikedi, S Karma, Z K Giotaki, D Kolostoumbis, C Papageorgiou, E Zorba, C Spiliopoulou, A Amann and M Statheropoulos Source Type: research

The DSM-5 and Bipolar - A New Series
As most of you know, in May this year, the American Psychiatric Association will publish a new edition to its psychiatric bible - the DSM. The DSM-5, which will supersede the current DSM-IV, represents the first significant update of the DSM in nearly two decades. Unfortunately, this hardly translates to better information based on what we have learned about mental illness over 20 years. Much less will the new version better assist clinicians in...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - January 13, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

Alms for the Poor…
I swung by the PIggly Wiggly at lunch to buy more of Posses’ Brunswick stew – the very same stew I discovered some months ago. I also bought a giant loaf of very fresh white bread. You can’t have Brunswick stew without Sunbeam white bread to dip into it with. I left the grocery store and made a beeline to my parent’s house which is just about a 1/4 mile behind the Piggly Wiggly. It is the end of the week and I am almost out of food. Well, almost out of foods I like to eat I should say. “Alms for the poor!” I told my mother excitedly as she answered the back door. “You’re here to get the l...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 13, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

That First Sliver of Sunlight is On its Way…
The first sliver of sunlight is just about to break over the horizon. The magical hour has just begun. A moment ago it was still pitch dark outside. Dawn can come so fast. I knew it was going to be an interesting day when I tripped over Maggie getting out of the bed. “Ambush!” I thought to myself with a chuckle. She was waiting on me to get out of the bed and she started her pre-walk wiggles. One nice thing about last night was that I slept from 9pm to 7am this morning. It’s been a long time in which I’ve gotten to sleep so long. The daily weekly grind starts tomorrow so let’s ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 13, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Let’s Get Judy a Laptop!
j udy said... I have a question. I have a 6 year old lap top that is slowly dying there is just nothing that can be done to resistate it anymore :( Lenny was a good laptop Anyway I am saving to buy a new one by March. Here is what I need: : I am a nurse but occasionally teach a class at our hospital so need power point and such : I need to be able to do my budget : Occasionally my older children will use it for a paper(we have one regular PC in the house for them) : Music : Ability to put my picture card in or transfer pics in and print pictures out : Some kind of antivirus software. Although on this ...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 13, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

And the House Hunting Begins!
Crazy day. Out of three showings on our house, we got three offers in the first two days it was listed. They got into a bidding war, and we went with an offer that was slightly over the asking price. It's so strange. I watched homes sit in our neighborhood for 6+ months without selling and that's what I had prepared myself for as well. We're looking at homes tomorrow. Ideally I'd live to live in Naperville, but we found a few in Plainfield (north or south, I don't remember, but the realtor said that was important), a few in Naperville, and one, strangely enough, in Aurora. I know very little about these a...
Source: bipolar.and.me - January 12, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

The Really Early Morning Show With Andrew and Maggie…
Birds Gotta Fly and Fish Gotta Swim… I am certainly no stranger to being awake at earlier hours of the night. You will often find my house lit up at 3am in the morning. Maggie woke me up at 3am this morning with just crazy, maniacal barking. I usually take her pretty seriously and do what I normally do, and that is to turn on all the outside lights and Maggie usually calms down. I couldn’t go back to sleep and stayed up until 6am this morning. I ordered a new heat sink and fan for my computer after reading a ton of hardware reviews and then went back to bed. Let’s see if we can’t get those p...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 12, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Comment Reply…
Summer said... Feel better soon Grannie. I know how much a knee replacement hurts. This meal looks fabulous. Did she fry her chicken before putting the BBQ sauce on it? Andrew’s Reply… Summer, dad actually made the barbecue sauce from scratch for Helen to use, and no she didn’t fry them. She just baked them in the oven. Dad was worried about them becoming dry in the oven without the skin on, but they came out perfect.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 12, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Road Trip - Check!
We made it! We are in our apartment and are, for the most part, unpacked. But it was a miserable trip. We were both sick, Mark much less so since he had taken the flu shot earlier last year. As we drove, I got progressively worse, and now I am so sick I find myself taking hydrocodone for my throat and chest just to contain the pain, and I've had this stuff for years and years so it's not like I abuse it. We spent the night at the Ritz Carlton which should have been a fun time, but we were so sick we ordered room service, took way too much flu medicine and went to bed. I was worse in the mornin...
Source: bipolar.and.me - January 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Grannies Back!
This IS The Fun Part! said... Did ya miss me?? I've out having a total right knee replacement! OUCH!! Don't ever let anyone tell you that this is a quick, easy deal. I can't ever recall having pain like this . . . and those pills they give ya - - - don't even touch it. About 3 to 4 more months of therapy and they say I might start feeling almost human again. I'm finally home after a month in the hospital and rehab. And the dang thing still hurts enough that the doctor is still prescribing Percocet 10/500 every 4 hours! Feels so good to be back among friends again! Love ya, Grannie Andrew Replied: I hav...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

One of Helen’s Better Meals in Quite Some Time…
I do so very much adore Helen’s macaroni and cheese and the barbequed chicken breast was great when used in a whole wheat sandwich as I did today for dinner. My only criticism was that I could have eaten more of that fried okra. Don’t think that I didn’t take the time to thank the gods that be for such lavish Southern meals when so many people on Earth are starving and/or doing without. I truly am lucky and a blessed soul. Mom has three of her to-go plates that her and Helen make for me. That’s means macaroni and cheese for the next three days! Whoo Hoo!
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Going On Walkabout…
There was no soul more happy to walk than my dear Maggins this morning. She bolted out my front door at a furious pace with me in tow. We walked all the way down to the Circle K convenience store once again and back. I had to have my morning .99 cent cup of hot cocoa. The temperatures were quite nice as well this morning. In the mid-sixties. It felt almost balmy. I walked in a t-shirt it was so warm. This forebodes bad weather I am afraid as it often does in the South. My father told me last night to be careful of tying Maggie to the post outside the convenience store. “What if she bit...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

My Ever Increasingly Escalatingly Complex Mother…
“You haven’t got any of your lemonades this week,” mom said a moment ago after she asked me what I wanted from the Mexican restaurant. Mom has taken it upon herself to buy me two 12-packs of Minute maid lemonade a week. How this got started I am not quite sure. I think I told my mother that it was the best tasting lemonade I have ever tried. Well, she took that statement and ran. “Do you want me to leave you some on the back porch?” she asked. “Or I can bring them by your house after eating with Sandra.” “Just stick them in your car and I will get them out when you bring my supper,” I told her. Th...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Lunches is Served!
Baked chicken medallions, cheesy scalloped potatoes, glazed undercooked carrots, and green beans. Dessert was some of those vanilla crème cookies I mentioned earlier. Dad would call those green beans “Yankee Beans” as no pork fat was involved in the preparation. Little Coddled Me… “What happened to you?” my father asked me as he walked towards my car last night, “You are always at home.” I had just pulled into my driveway and was climbing out of my car. “I drove over to your house to get my Cokes tonight inste...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Detecting bacterial lung infections: in vivo evaluation of in vitro volatile fingerprints
In this study we demonstrated that SESI-MS is capable of differentiating infected versus uninfected mice, P. aeruginosa -infected versus S. aureus -infected mice, as well as distinguish between infections caused by P. aeruginosa strains PAO1 versus FRD1, with statistical significance ( p < 0.05). In addition, we compared in vitro and in vivo volatiles an...
Source: Journal of Breath Research - January 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Jiangjiang Zhu, Heather D Bean, Matthew J Wargo, Laurie W Leclair and Jane E Hill Source Type: research

When Flu Hits - Watching Your Mental Health
I’ve been in bed for the last seven days in an advanced state of flu-induced misery. I didn’t think this was anything worth writing about, but then today I’ve been getting confirmation that my misery has plenty of company. All over the news, I am reading reports of a major nationwide flu outbreak. I assume all of you know best how to take care of yourself. But with the added complication of our bipolar, here are a few...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - January 9, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

ADHD and the Zen of Insecurity
I have heard it said that one hallmark of ADHD in adults is insecurity. Then I thought, what's the point of writing about it? What would I have to offer on the subject? Sure, I'm insecure, but who likes what I write anyway? Does anybody even care? And do I really want to expose my dirty laundry in such a public way? I should pull the blog offline and delete the whole mess. I'm wasting my time here anyway. Okay. I might be exaggerating—maybe just a bit—but I am an insecure person. Oh, I can put on a good face, but when it comes down to it, Fear & Worry are the two advisors I consult with the most. Sometimes Wouldn't-It-...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 9, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Tags: ADHD Source Type: blogs

This and That…
Supper was a very delicious Carving Board brand roasted turkey on toasted rye with Swiss cheese. Maggie got a half sandwich as well. If she could talk or type, she would extol its virtues for me. Tomorrow is Mexican Thursday's and I will probably get my usual chicken fajitas. I am leaning towards a whole order of nachos supreme for some reason, though. I haven’t gotten that in months and Maggie gets a windfall of food when I do. Overkill: Mom got me two very large packages of delicious generic vanilla crème cookies to give Maggie’s antibiotic medications with. Mom and I can’t do anything small. I...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 9, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Comment Replies…
judy said... Believe it or not I have a cup of sleepy time tea every night and it really helps. I know its just tea but make sure it wont mix with any of your other meds :) I truly enjoy your blog and want you to to know that Judy Andrew says…. I found a new friend! Judy, thank you so much for the words that may help. I usually can drink a soda before bed and it will not keep me up, Thanks for taking the time to comment and say hello!
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 9, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Things Are Keeping Life Interesting…
My CR-V was making a weird knocking noise on the drive home from volunteering. I think my left McPherson strut is coming loose or going bad. Just one more thing to worry about as it grows more pronounced. I am going to order another strut from online and try to install it myself. I am also going to replace the Honda’s brake pads while I am at it. Two birds with one stone as they say. The wear indicators in the brake pads are signaling to me that they need to be changed. Martha’s on the Move… Just as I pulled into my driveway at lunch, Mom pulled up in front of my house. She wanted me to go pu...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 9, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Words of Wisdom From Forsythia…
forsythia said... This could be just an old wives' tale, but I've read that the light on the TV or computer monitor can mess with your wake-sleep cycle if you spend too much time looking at screens after 9 PM. Just sayin' Andrew replied… Forsythia, that may very well be true. I spend an inordinate amount of time sitting in front of a computer screen every day and most evenings.
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 9, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Resolutions, Algebra, and Great White Whales - New Year Ruminations
We are eight days into the New Year. Have you broken all your New Year’s resolutions yet? I went back and read my resolutions post from last year, where I noted that “I don’t make resolutions as such” (very wise of me). Instead, I use this time of year to take stock and figure out how to apportion my limited time and energy. Two years ago, I initiated a massive reorganizing of my website. Last year, I wrote a...
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - January 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs

I Gasped for Joy
Tuesday - Entry 21:I came home with the bestest ever Christmas present two weeks ago. Wrapped in holiday cheer, and doused in the eggnoggy spirit of the warmth & happiness of the season, somebody gave me the flu. It was just what I always wanted. The irony is that I fought to be there at Nana's to receive this gift. The Elf had been in the hospital with a virus-like illness, or complications from her gallbladder surgery. The doctors couldn't be quite sure. And therein laid my way into Christmas. How could my family prevent my girls and I from attending the festivities when even the doctors were not sure what had caused the...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling Family Source Type: blogs

Disaster Strikes!
This is terrible. With two days to go to move yesterday, I woke up in the middle of the night with a sore throat. By the middle of the morning, it was full blown flu. I felt awful, awful, awful! Now we move tomorrow, and I'm still sick. The things I need to move to Chicago won't magically move themselves into the SUV, so laying in bed being sick isn't an option. It wasn't an option yesterday either, there were people in and out of the house all day long. I took way too much flu medicine just to get through the day. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. But I'm miserab...
Source: bipolar.and.me - January 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Daydreaming…
It is something I do often – dreaming of better days and even kinder and gentler tomorrows to come. Today, I was daydreaming of building the ultimate uber super computer sitting here in the computer lab. I was completely zoned out. I then got on Newegg and started adding various computer parts to my shopping cart sparing no expense what-so-ever. The total came out to be over $20,000 dollars. Ouch! Now, that is one expensive computer. It was all in good fun, though. “Only in my dreams,” as Debbie Gibson would sing with her prepubescent sounding voice. Oh, how I loved Debbie Gi...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Into the Midnight Hours…
In an hour it will be midnight. It is not often I am up this late, but I can’t sleep. I’ve tried all the tricks of the trade including a warm glass of milk from the microwave. Maggie keeps traipsing into my computer room with a swagger to check on me. I will then hear her go jump back on the bed in the bedroom after a good ole back scratch. She is like me and we thrive on our routines. She wants me to join her in the bed. She can’t sleep without me. I’ve been afraid to take too much of my Clonazepam as it messes with my memory. It certainly would put me to sleep, though. Benadryl does...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Men in Black…
Dad came by the house after lunch dressed in all black with sporty looking grey trousers on and black dressy shoes. I told him he looked like a secret agent down to the dark sunglasses he was wearing. He wouldn’t sit on my couch for fears of Maggie’s hair would cover him. He just wanted to see how I was before he left town. He also wanted to make sure Maggie got fed and watered today. “I am going to watch the National Championship at my daughter’s and son-in-law’s house,” he told me with a smile. One of the weirdest things about my father being part-time now is their home phone is getting answered...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 7, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Jack Frost is Nipping at my Honda’s Heels…
Maggie jumped to attention on the couch when she heard me unlock the front door around five this morning. She ran over to the piano where the leash is kept thinking we were going for our walk. “Not just yet, doll,” I told her. I still had one more thing to do first and that was go get my six special sodas for the day. I was jonesing for one pretty badly this morning like a true sugar and caffeine junky. It was very, very cold this morning. My little wireless wireless weather station was reporting 26 degrees and it is very conservative. I was dismayed that I had a very heavy and thick frost on m...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 7, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Hoodies Scare Me…
I don’t know if it is the sign of the times, or just part of the ramifications of the Trayvon Martin shooting incident, but I am highly suspicious of people with their hoodies pulled over their heads. Especially in the dark of night before dawn. I don’t even wear mine nearly as much as well. I was laying in bed about 5am this morning when Maggie goes absolutely bat shiat crazy! I decide to get up and turn on all the lights inside and out. I couldn’t find anything wrong so I left to go get my six Coca-Colas for the day. As I was backing out of the driveway, I almost hit a man with camouf...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Hoodies Plus Pitch Dark Nights are Scary…
I don’t know if it is the sign of the times, or just part of the ramifications of the Trayvon Martin shooting incident, but I am becoming highly suspicious of people with their hoodies pulled over their heads. Especially in the dark of the night before dawn. I don’t even wear mine nearly as much as well for safety's sake. I was laying in bed about 4:30 to 5am this morning when Maggie goes absolutely bat shiat crazy! She was a barking fool and on the job,. I decide to get up and turn on all the lights inside and out. I couldn’t find anything wrong so I left to go get my six Coca-Colas fo...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

I had no fire training – former mental health worker blasts trust after damning report into blaze. #ukmh
Mental Health Staff had no fire training. Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 5, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

#Derby: Charity to stop #MentalHealth training if city council cuts services funding. #ukmh
Cut Funding and we’ll Cut Training Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies.
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 5, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs