• Living With Someone Who Is Mentally Ill: Interview with My Daughter

    Living With Someone Who Is Mentally Ill: Interview with My Daughter

    My daughter has seen it all. From her oceanic blue eyes in her cherub baby face to now, almost 12 years later. She is a remarkable child who has not only witnessed her mother’s hysterics (& panic attacks, drastic weight loss and days of not getting out of bed) but also her own diagnosis of Read more

  • Living With Someone Who Is Mentally Ill: Interview with My Husband

    Living With Someone Who Is Mentally Ill: Interview with My Husband

    I was approached by a friend of mine who offered up the suggestion on doing an interview series with family members on what their thoughts and feelings were concerning my Mental Illnesses.  I have to admit, I had been toying with this idea for a long time and at this request, felt it was the Read more

  • When All You Can Do Is Blame Yourself For Your Daughter’s Diagnosis

    When All You Can Do Is Blame Yourself For Your Daughter’s Diagnosis

    I tried to hold my tears back as I stared into my daughter’s oceanic blue eyes.  I could feel them welling up, feel the moisture increasing. Not here, not now, not in public, Stephanie. But, to be cliché, the dam was about to break.  A tear or two escaped.  My daughter was concerned and relayed Read more

  • Reflecting On My Uncle’s Death

    Reflecting On My Uncle’s Death

    My uncle died last Sunday. I do not ask for your sympathies but instead offer you to bestow them to my aunt, cousins (both his children & grandchildren, and his brothers (my father and my other uncle). They are the ones who knew him well. I did not. Like his parents, my grandparents, I barely Read more

  • When You Fear Yourself

    When You Fear Yourself

    There were brief moments, tiny myopic moments, seconds that I could see my reality. In these moments of lucidity, I became scared.  I was frightened at what I was becoming and how fast my body and brain were transforming.  Fortunately (or unfortunately) these moments of clarity were scarce because my body was failing me so Read more

  • Teaching My Daughter To Rise Above The Stigma Of Mental Illness

    Teaching My Daughter To Rise Above The Stigma Of Mental Illness

    My daughter has seen me. She has seen me throughout her eleven years of life.  She has seen me lose touch with reality several times, seen me cry uncontrollably many times, seen me at a handful of Psychiatric and Therapy appointments.  She has even seen me become hospitalized.  Throughout all of this, she has stood Read more

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