It is as if some sort of cosmic energy is continually pulsing through my veins, cascading along, dancing with my white blood cells, finding a home in every organ of my body. I hold the universe inside of me and I delight in the idea of that for days on end, but when I hit [...]
Tag: anxiety
The Silence of Seven – Stephanie Bennett-Henry
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 [...]
The Trick Question – Stephanie Bennett-Henry

The dreaded question you will hear throughout your life is well intended, but the meaning changes over time, and sometimes that changes what the answer would have been. "Are you okay?" Answer it now, like an honesty bomb just blew from your mouth, as if you have never been coached to answer in [...]
Twenty-six Pages
My Brain is on Fire
I asked for this medication change. I needed this medication change, but that doesn't make the initial effects of this medication change any easier to deal with. Yesterday was particularly brutal for me. How is it possible for one's head to simultaneously feel so bloody heavy that it's weighing your entire body down yet at [...]
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