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Here's what happened in my life over the past week: I decided to do some rebranding on the blog, not for any real reason other than the idea popped into my head. My old logo no longer matched up with the current look of my site, so I changed that. I've also changed from the… Continue reading Weekend Wrap-Up
I really don't have much to say about the past week. One of the things that annoyed me when I initially switched to the block editor was that they did away with the handy post scheduling feature in the classic editor that you could see on the scheduling calendar which days already had posts scheduled.… Continue reading Weekend Wrap-Up
A while back, a post about choosing to be positive came up in my WP Reader feed. The blogger mentioned that "our mind is something we do and can have control over." While they weren't making reference to mental illness at all, I don't think control over one's own mind is quite so cut and… Continue reading How Much Control Do You Have Over Your Mind?
I Will Not Be My Mental Illness: Let's Recover Together by Karina Pommainville-Odell, a fellow blogger, is an invitation for the reader to join the author in working on a better life with mental illness. The book's tone is friendly and encouraging, and positive in a realistic rather than over the top way. Chapters are… Continue reading Book Review: I Will Not Be My Mental Illness
Here's what happened in my life over the past week: It's not been a very good week for sleeping, which makes for extra space cadet-ness. Normally when I wake up, making the bed is fairly easy because don't flop around too much. This week, it's looked like I've been having a wrestling match with my… Continue reading Weekend Wrap-Up
In Braving Bipolar: A Family Journey and Guide, Stephanie Schlosser shares her experiences with bipolar disorder in order to support others who have the disorder, provide education and insights for those who don't, and challenge stigma. The book is broken into two parts. Part I gives a chronological view of how the author's illness developed… Continue reading Book Review: Braving Bipolar
This post is a follow-up to a conversation Winter Dragonflies and I were having about different mental errors that can feed into social anxiety. We all have a natural set of cognitive biases that can result in mental errors, so I wanted to take a look at what some of those might be. Cognitive biases… Continue reading Cognitive Biases that Can Feed into Social Anxiety
Here's what happened in my life over the past week: My brain has been particularly spacey this week, which made reading a rather slow undertaking. Pair that with some random dizziness and I've been rather useless.I gave the piggies a spa day, with baths and haircuts. They were not impressed.My woodpecker that lives on my… Continue reading Weekend Wrap-Up
Here's what happened in my life over the past week: It was crazy hot here the earlier part of this week. I had to use the electrolyte-loading strategy I've figured out in the past for when I lose a lot of sodium through sweat and the kidneys hang onto more lithium as a result. My… Continue reading Weekend Wrap-Up
The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook by Kathryn Hope Gordon aims to support people experiencing thoughts of suicide to help manage their emotional pain, drawing on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) strategies. The book begins by guiding the reader through worksheets to reflect on reactions to the suicidal thoughts and identify risk factors and elements in the environment… Continue reading Book Review: The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook