Isolation

Yesterday we met for the first time with our new women’s group for AA. There were only four of us, but it was a very good meeting. We discussed isolation.
Isolation is a very big issue in mental illness and alcoholism. People, especially women, tend to stick to themselves. They stay home.
While they are at home, [...]

Moving ahead in recovery

Recovery is wonderful. Today was an interesting day. Full and busy.
First I went to my Toastmasters meeting where I met one of the state’s Senator canidates. He found out I was a writer. He asked me if I could do some PR work for him. I told him I had done some in the past. [...]

Positive thinking

It is still snowing on April 22, 2008 in Northern ID. We had two days of warm 70 degree temperature and now it is winter again. I am trying to stay positive. We have had over 9 ft of snow this winter in the town that I live in. We have had many records broken.
Positive [...]

Camping this weekend

Just a note. We are going camping this weekend with the church youth group. I am the only woman teacher going so I have to go so the girls can go. I am NOT enthusiastic about going. It is expected to snow again this weekend. I don’t think winter will ever be over this year [...]

Co-AD Board

A couple of weeks ago I sent in an application to the Comprehensive Advocacy Board to become a member of the board. Yesterday I received a voice mail that my application was accepted for the board.
I am so excited. This is a position that I could only have gotten in recovery. It is a position [...]

Supplements

Our food supply contains little of the nutritional value that was in the food twenty years ago. To get the same nutrients that were in the food in the 50s, you have to eat about 10 times as much as then. We have overfarmed our land and loaded our food with chemicals.
So in order for [...]

Stages

I don’t have much to say today. I am about to start out on a long road trip to take my son to the orthodontist for his first consultation. My son is NOT happy about this. It reminds me of stages.
We all go through stages in life. When we have a break in our mental [...]

Lifestyle Treatments for Depression pt 2

Here are more suggestions for lifestyle changes that will help with depression. As before, this is not to take the place of the advice of a Dr. Lifestyle changes work together with a doctor’s care and a counselor towards the goal of recovery.
Having daily spiritual exercise is very important. An inner religious experience has been [...]

Voices

I had a comment about asking what I thought about hearing voices. Hearing voices is a real thing. Personally I don’t think it is a “evil” thing. I am a Christian myself. I don’t think that people who have mental illness would not have that mental illness if they were good enough Christians. It is [...]

Breaking out of the mold

I was talking to someone the other day. She has the chance to improve her situation in life, but she doesn’t want to. She wants to stay where she is. She has been in the system all her life. She knows no other way. Her mind can conceive of no other way. She is stuck.
This [...]