I have hypothyroidism. I had half of my thyroid removed in 2008, and I’ve been on medicine ever since. It turned out that I had a goiter, a benign tumor, and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Basically my immune system is trying to kill what’s left of my thyroid. Fun times!! My thyroid numbers have been considered normal for a while, but I still feel like hot garbage (literally hot, I’m generally the temperature of a menopausal woman, but I’m in my 30’s!) frequently. I thought I’d give […]
Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together
I’m of the opinion that in a perfect world, therapy would be treated like any other kind of health maintenance. Some of us only need to go once or twice a year to make sure everything is still functioning like it should, and others might need a little more frequent fine tuning. But until that magical time occurs, we Americans are pretty much on our own as far as mental health. While John Kim’s book is by no means a replacement for a good […]
to stay sane. to stimulate, provoke, nourish and to console.
How to Stay Sane – This book’s stated goal is “how to remain stable and yet flexible, coherent and yet able to embrace complexity” sounded like a good brief – and let me tell you the tricks I’ve learnt, they work, they 100% work, they 1000% work. I have suffered with bouts of depression since my late teens and I embrace the opportunity to learn new ways to manage my depression and new behaviors to interrupt my descent into that pattern. This book has allowed […]
Am I out of breath from laughing or running?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that nothing good can come from reading. Let us observe Joel Cohen. Cohen, a writer for The Simpsons and noted couch potato, found himself under the spell of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run (reviewed by Halbs) and decided to take up running. When running didn’t kill him, he decided to run a marathon. See where reading leads you, dear reader? But it seems the damage is done for you and I, and if one must read, I can wholeheartedly […]