Chicana on the Edge is 16 years old and every post is here, but the website is new as of June 2020, so I'm thinking carefully about the categories and tags I want to use. Of the ones that aren't neutral like "PhysicalHealth," I think there are more with negative...
Summer 2020: my mind fell apart. The simplest way to explain it is that my psychiatrist, health care provider and I slowly and carefully weaned me off Effexor for a year, and my first day without it at all was July 4th. Within 24 hours I stopped being able to fall...
Alice Yin of The Chicago Tribune interviewed me for a story with a very long name: Mental health groups mobilize virtual community for those isolated by coronavirus outbreak. ‘This is a lifeline for people.’ Because my Depression: Friends Supporting Each Other Meetup...
Talked to my therapist last night and reviewed that people's main response to danger is to go into a state of shock because shock reduces pain. Whether it's physical pain or the emotional pain of being yelled at by a boss or fearing an important relationship is about...
Inspired by the final blog post of Obesio the Loser, a former online-friend, here's a list of stuff I've noticed over the decades. 1. Sometimes it gets better. Sometimes it doesn't. 2. No two people are exactly alike, but few people are genuinely special. 3. I still...
I'm proud to say that the depression support group I started through Meetup.com is going strong. As you can see in this screenshot, I started it on October 10th and we now have 111 members. Between seven and ten of us meet every Monday evening in Rogers Park and we...
[NOTE: the name of our Meetup has since been changed to Depression: Friends Supporting Each Other because people thought the original name was too negative. Of course it was negative! We're talking about depression. But I listened to the members and we voted on a...
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. Here’s Part 7 of my experience.
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. Here’s Part 6 of my experience.
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. Here’s Part 5 of my experience.
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. Here’s Part 4 of my experience.
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. Here’s Part 3 of my experience.
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. Here’s Part 2 of my experience.
I completed an Intensive Outpatient Program for depression. This is how it went.
Next post on weight & health: Determined At the age of 50, I'm now on my fifth year of being fat. When I went from size 10 to size 18 in the last months of my marriage in 2013, I thought, "I'm not worried about gaining weight. I've been thin and active my...