Category: Labels

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Crazy, Cancer & Chuckles

by Nicole Lyons5 Comments on Crazy, Cancer & Chuckles

Last month Stephanie Bennett-Henry and I wrote something together that touches on Stigma. I was reluctant to post it for (get this) fear of offending people. How ridiculous is that? Pretty ridiculous considering the disgusting comments and jokes that people are making today, in regard to Sinead O'Connor. I swear to God, some of you need [...]

Abuse, Addiction, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Bullying, Compassion, Conflict, Creative Nonfiction, Death, Delusions, Depression, Empowered, Gratitude, Happiness, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Labels, Love, Love and Illness, Mood Disorders, Nicole Writes, Psychosis, Uncategorized

Six Words

by Nicole Lyons12 Comments on Six Words

It's amazing how much can be said, or not said, in six little words.  

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Is It Good Enough? – Matthew D. Eayre

by Nicole Lyons6 Comments on Is It Good Enough? – Matthew D. Eayre

My first day at preschool, I could see that the teacher's aide wanted to teach me the letters, so I didn't say,   I know this already... I was afraid of hurting her feelings. When she asked me to try, I read the words and kept reading, I learned to read at home when I [...]

Advocacy, Alternative Therapy, Amazing Authors, Depression, Feminine Collective, Feminism, Guest Appearances, Julie Anderson, Labels, Mental Illness and Creativity, The Gifts Mental Illness Bring, Uncategorized

Crazy Diamonds – By Julie Anderson

by Nicole Lyons8 Comments on Crazy Diamonds – By Julie Anderson
Crazy Diamonds – By Julie Anderson

  I recently read an outstanding book that made the case FOR mental illness, rather than AGAINST it. Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Programme at Tufts Medical Center, wrote, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness. Gandhi, President Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Martin Luther King Jr., were examined from [...]

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Anonymously Beautiful Minds

by Nicole Lyons8 Comments on Anonymously Beautiful Minds

I am so pleased to welcome the extraordinarily talented Nausicaa Twila to The Lithium Chronicles. I compartmentalize things. Yes, that's right. Like a soldier. Or Like they teach you in FBI training. I know this only from movies and from the show "Alias"; but it must be so in real life too.  We have small [...]

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This Non Compliant Needs A Med Change

by Nicole Lyons23 Comments on This Non Compliant Needs A Med Change

I have been feeling like shit for quite some time and here is where I'm at: I think it was around 4 months ago now the last time I waltzed my ass out of my psychiatrist's office after she prescribed me tegretol and looked me dead in the eye and stated, "I'm going to refer you [...]

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Delusions or brilliance?

by Nicole Lyons16 Comments on Delusions or brilliance?
Delusions or brilliance?

Vibrant Ideas My mind is filled with an essence. Tales and characters ride on the cusp of almost tangible, and trust me when I tell you they are neither delusion nor hallucination, but that they are vivid and extraordinary. Thinking outside of the box makes perfect sense to me and logic seems almost crude, at [...]