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NAMI Hurricane Aid

Posted by Void on 09/03/2005

I do not have the words to express my anger over the lack of response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Too little, too late, they are saying. I would be a much harsher critic. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is responding to the needs of the mentally ill […]

Mitochondria Food

Posted by Void on 08/08/2005

Caveat: I’m an electrical engineer. Do not construe this to be medical advice. It is NOT. I have chosen to use allopathic meds as the basis for my treatment, and I will not change my mind – at least not until after menopause! But with my pdoc’s blessing I am allowed not only to take […]

Eosinophils

Posted by Void on 08/05/2005

Got some bloodwork back from the doctor. The asthma hasn’t improved, even though the steroids are messing up my head. Thyroid is ok. My eosinophils, a type of white blood cell involved in asthma, are >500. The reference level is between 40 to 400 per cubic millimetre. There are four types of white blood cells, […]

Am I opposed to SSDI?

Posted by Void on 07/30/2005

The future of the human species is to learn how to use our brains. — Dr. Timothy Leary

The Thousand Names of the New God

Posted by Void on 07/10/2005

I have chosen to step out of the darkness and into the cold light of day. I am bipolar. Accept me or fade away. I don’t have time for shadows. I wonder about the wisdom of this decision, to embrace the bipolar disorder as part of who I am. Not to fight it, but to […]

The Kindling Effect

Posted by Void on 07/09/2005

I’m told that besides bipolars and schizophrenic visionaries, political dissidents andsubversive herbalists were also tortured and burned at the stake. Let’s add gays and Lesbians to the list. It makes sense that a single woman might make her living from herbalism. Which she may have learned from a lesbian mentor. Which was part of that […]

Shamanism and talking to Dog

Posted by Void on 07/09/2005

The anthropological literature has whole books on how different cultures view mental illness. A bipolar makes a perfect shaman, because unmedicated we tend to have periods of remission between any episodes of talking to Dog. How we perceive our own level of functioning is an important part of the diagnostic criteria. I quote from pendulum.org: […]

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