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New Blog and Website
We will no longer be posting here. You can follow us at rebeccamoore.me and embracingmadness.com. There is a follow button on each of the websites on the right side bar so you don’t miss any posts!
I hope all 67 of you come on over and follow us!
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Please Follow Our New Sites
Please Follow Our New Sites
We will no longer be posting here. You can follow us at rebeccamoore.me and embracingmadness.com. There is a follow button on each of the websites on the right side bar so you don’t miss any posts!
I hope all 67 of you come on over and follow us!
Thanks everyone!
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We've Moved
We’ve Moved
For everyone who is following me we have moved to rebeccamoore.me. Please visit me over there and you will find on the right side bar an email signup so you can stay up to date with what I’m posting.
Thanks everyone!
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Possible Misdiagnosis
I wasn’t going to blog about this until I had more information available, but it’s weighing heavily on my mind and with what’s going on it just shows how important getting the proper screening when you see a psychiatrist for the first time is.
Four years ago I went and saw a psychiatrist after I had a major breakdown. I was seeing and hearing things that weren’t there and I was overly paranoid.…
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Does A Diagnosis Matter?
Does A Diagnosis Matter?
On the grand scale of things, no, only the symptoms really matter, at least to a doctor. They want to treat the symptoms so they can lessen the impact for you. In a doctor’s world, the diagnosis only matters for insurance purposes. But I’m not talking about doctors here, I’m talking about us, the patients.
In my opinion, yes, having a name to go with the symptoms I’m experiencing matters. It’s…
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First Psychiatry Visit
Four years ago when I walked into my then psychiatrist’s office I was a ball of nerves. I had an entire list of symptoms I had been experiencing not just then, but for years. Unfortunately, my psychiatrist only listened to half of them, talked the rest of the time to my husband and therapist and threw the Bipolar Diagnosis at me. Had he taken the time to listen to my symptoms I have no doubt that…
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Crazy Little Thing Called Life
Crazy Little Thing Called Life
I try to be a good blogger, I really do. But sometimes, real life kicks in and kicks my ass. Between the 2 hour delays from the frigid cold and the snow days due to the huge storms we’ve been getting adding in seven kids and a husband with the stomach bug, there just hasn’t been much time to breathe, let alone blog.
Then when I thought I did have some time, we decided to gut Mothering Through…
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Interview With Sarah Fader - CEO Of Stigma Fighters
Interview With Sarah Fader – CEO Of Stigma Fighters
Sarah Fader is the flavor vanilla with something unusual in it – like gummy bears, because she’s sometimes extroverted and wants everybody to like her, but some folks are like “wait a minute, this vanilla ice cream has gummy bears in it?! That’s weird. I don’t know about that…” Other people love that this particular ice cream has gummy bears in it, because it makes it more interesting and…
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Working Through Depression
You may be wondering why I’m blogging at 2am EST. Well, it’s about -35 here with the wind chill so the kiddos have a snow day tomorrow because of how cold it is. If I don’t blog now, I won’t get the chance to do so tomorrow.
You would think after my last description of how depression takes us over that there is no hope in working our way through it, but the contrary is true.
Depression no doubt…
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Black Cloud
Depression. It’s not just a typical bad day or a case of the blues.
It’s an overwhelming feeling that you wake up one morning to this black cloud that has enveloped your entire being. Every inch of your soul and body is covered by the black cloud of depression. You pull the covers up over your head, groaning, knowing what’s waiting for you just outside your bedroom door.
There’s children and they…
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Doing The Best I Can
Doing The Best I Can
I’ve been going through many different medication adjustments over the past few months. This is mainly due to me destabilizing and my medication regime going out the window. We found a combination that was working well but needed some tweaking. My psych upped a few of my medications and then added in an anti-depressant to help boost my spirits a bit considering depression hits me every few months.
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Fighting The Demons
Since I was diagnosed while pregnant with Mollie, I’ve been in this rut. I blogged about it a little bit here. I have no motivation and not much desire to do anything at all. The laundry piles up, the dishes pile up and the house looks like a war zone hit it. Okay, it’s not that bad. Dan is a tremendous help and Andrew and Liz help keep the bathroom and dishes done for me.
But somewhere along…
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Update On Being Real
Update On Being Real
The last time I blogged I spoke about how I wasn’t feeling 100% and how my medications weren’t 100%. They still aren’t, but not because my doctor is slacking. She needs my Lithium level from the hospital (they never sent it) in order to up my Lithium to a higher dose. We kept the Thorazine at what it is because it seems to be working okay and the Lamictal is fine where that is at too. The only…
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Ollie
Ollie http://wp.me/s5qtbG-ollie
I try to keep my blog bipolar mom specific, but sometimes it’s fun to add in a little something different and let everyone know what’s been going on in my life. I realize I haven’t posted as much as I used to and there’s a pretty good reason for it.
Besides raising 7 kiddos and going through a medication adjustment, two weeks ago we got a new addition to our family. It’s been a long time since…
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Being Real
I’ve always tried to be as truthful and real with my readers as I can be. This is a time when I probably should be the most truthful as I’ve ever been.
A few of you know I was inpatient about a month ago. I was not in a good place and needed some immediate, aggressive help right away. I did something I shouldn’t have done. I dismissed myself from the hospital about seven days soon than what the…
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Stigma Sucks
Stigma – a mark of disgrace associated with a particular quality or person “the stigma of mental disorder” synonyms: shame, disgrace, dishonor, humiliation
There’s a few types of stigma and both of them suck pretty bad.
Internalized stigma is where we stick all the shame and heartache on ourselves. We blame ourselves for our illness and we find it hard to come to terms with the fact that we…
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Internal Conflict
I think we all go through, at first, at least. The push-pull, do I really have (fill in the blank) mental illness or could it be something else? We struggle with the realization that our lives are about to change and in very dramatic ways. In ways that we never could quite imagine. We soon find ourselves questioning everyone one of our moves.
“Is this what happens when my bipolar acts up?”
“Am I…
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