I guess it’s sort of like this blog, minus the reading, plus the awesome Neal Dusedau as co-host. We’re talking about our own mental health and yours – not from a medical standpoint, we’re totally not doctors – but from a patient’s standpoint. Together we hope to navigate living life in this bananas world while maintaining some semblance of mental… Read more →
Category: The Not-So-Trivial
Creature of Aesthetic
I like round cups. Mid Century design. Bloody Marys with pickle juice. Color. I don’t like feeling like a joyless zombie. I don’t like being unable to tell the difference between anxiety and poop. I don’t like the feeling of pointlessness that creeps in when I let it. I am a creature of aesthetic. I like it when… Read more →
This is Treatment.
When this place was my livelihood I used to measure my life in “blogability.” I’d try to gauge how interesting what I was doing at any given moment would be to read about later, and then experience the event accordingly. Non-blogable events got my full presence and attention, while highly blogable events were experienced via curated eye and held at… Read more →
The Deepest Breath
Emotionally…mentally, I have not been having the best few months. It started with a (grotesquely failed) attempt to wean off of Prozac and it ended with mental mayhem, ghosting on my therapist and pretty much everyone else, and a lot – A LOT – of sleep. I used to think I didn’t have an addictive personality. It turned out that… Read more →
What’s Next?
Well, shit. The world has changed, and we couldn’t be more divided about whether or not it’s a good thing. I haven’t been quiet about how I feel. I’m trying to actually be a little quieter while I process it all and figure out what to do next. I took all the social apps off my phone because raging into… Read more →
Hiding In The Bathroom ~ Success And Depression
I really loved this talk I had with Morra Aarons -Mele for her Forbes’ Podcast “Hiding In The Bathroom.” Have you listened to her show? YOU SHOULD. Read more →
A very personal fundraiser.
As many of you know, after the birth of my daughter Delilah in 2009 I suffered from a severe case of postpartum depression and OCD. It caught me completely off guard, but it shouldn’t have — one in seven mothers will find herself in its grasp. The illness and subsequent recovery changed my life in many ways (for one, I now… Read more →
This One Time, Children’s Hospital LA Saved My Life #MiracleMarathon
I was three years old. My recurring ear infections had given way to mastoiditis, and there was a chunk of my head that had to go before the infection could spread to my brain. My Dad worked for himself, so my parents carried private insurance that excluded my ears on account of how expensive they’d become. While footing the bill for the… Read more →
Social Good: The Opposite of Internet Trolling #Blogust
[Megan Thompson, Health Aide; Senator Dianne Feinstein, me, and fellow Shot@Life Champion Shannon Des Roches Rosa discussing malaria eradication in the Rayburn Office Bldg. Washington, D.C.] I think for a lot of independent bloggers, we start out with a small idea we’re not sure anyone else will care about and through the generous nature of humanity we find ourselves connected to… Read more →
To Lie Or Not To Lie About Botox
Nearly a year ago, a local plastic surgeon offered me essentially any medi-spa service I could dream of gratis, simply in exchange for writing about the experience. A pretty good deal, no doubt, but a seriously intimidating one for a woman who had never considered fillers as anything but a punchline. I came home to my husband and gently broached… Read more →