I am not learning the lessons from my suffering that those in power want me to. They want me to concoct some kind of redemptive narrative out of all I suffer. I can't and I won't. Some of the lessons. Power is the most important thing. Power and empowerment are the...
I have gone from marginally attached to the workforce to the working poor. I can tell you without hesitation there is no situation worse than being poor and still having to work. I'm getting off of disability, I was forced to apply for federal disability as a...
Who would have thought repeated exposure to trauma doesn't make you stronger.
People blame social media for generation Z's mental health woes and that may be part of it but it's an easy scapegoat that requires us to do none of the inner work as to why things have gotten the way they have. Having a serious mental illness myself I would like to...
The lower you are in society the less people associate with you on their own free will. I am neurodivergent, bipolar, and visually impaired and every decade I've been treated worse (though the outlier to this was junior high where I had the typical crappy experience)....
It's encouraging some people bounce back from mental illness but I'm bipolar. The results of the comparison showed that about 10% of Canadians with a history of mental illness met thriving criteria, compared to about 24% of Canadians who did not have a history of...
Don't have a visible physical disability along with the neurotic personality type (like me). A neurotic personality type is STARVED for positivity from their environment but a visible physical disability makes every interaction with the abled world an incursion. So...
From an NYTimes article on Autistic burnout: Autistic adults are also more likely to feel suicidal; a 2018 study published in Molecular Autism found that 72 percent of autistic adults scored highly for suicide risk, compared to 33 percent of the general population....
People don't realize I no longer much have that feeling where I have good feelings to cap off something challenging I did. For example I don't have that clean feeling after taking a shower. And when I do hard volunteer work I often don't have the feeling of...
As you know I am someone with a physical disability (moderate visual impairment with weird-looking glasses) and a mental illness (bipolar 1). I think a physical disability plus a mental illness adds up to more than the sum of its parts. At least it has in my life....