Recovery

Mania and credit

Thanksgiving is over now. The holiday shopping season has officially begun. Black Friday sales have hit everyone’s wallets. It is very easy for some people with mental illness to hit […]

Happy Thanksgiving

I wish to wish each of you a day filled with recovery and happy thoughts. I wish great food and good blessings for each of you. May this day be […]

Passing of time

I am going to take a little step out of the topic of recovery today. I am going to talk about the passing of time. It seems that as you […]

Weekend of service

I have mentioned that I am a recovering alcoholic. I am in a 12 Step Recovery Program. This weekend I spent in service in an Area Assembly Meeting in Washington. […]

Conference results

The Regional 1 Mental Health Recovery Conference went off with flying colors. Paul Jones “Bipolar Boy” spoke as one of the speakers, as did Lizzy Simon. If you ever have […]

Regional 1 Mental Health Recovery Conference

Tomorrow is the annual Mental Health Recovery Conference for Regional 1 in Northern Idaho. I will be a panel speaker. I will be giving my personal story of recovery, along […]

Motivation

According to psychologists, motivation is anything that might energize and direct an organism’s actions. What is your motivation? Is it good grades, if you are in school? Money at a […]

Mental Health Notes

I just wanted to share another blog I have discovered on mental health issues. Alicia at http://www.mentalhealthnotes.com/ has a great blog. She writes on mental health issues just as I do, […]

What is abnormal?

I think I am going to love my Abnornal Psych class. This week we have been discussing exactly what constitutes abnormal. In this society of America, we are very lax […]

A New Beginning

I started classes Monday. It has been a long time since I went to college. It isn’t too bad yet. I am taking two classes online, one on campus. I […]