By Lynn Rae My psychiatrist supplies me with medication, but my social worker is there to actually listen to me. She helped me build the hope that my life could change. Being diagnosed with depression was heart-breaking. I knew of no one else who had surrendered to this terrible disease. But I couldn’t deny there was […]
By Lynn Rae Turns out, not receiving sympathy for my bipolar disorder diagnosis was the most helpful thing to push me forward. Pity was something that I wasn’t going to get from my family when I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My mother-in-law told me that “God never gives us anything we can’t handle.” This gave […]
By Lynn Rae Depression can be a lot like a lousy hand of poker. It doesn’t matter what we do the depression lingers. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” — Randy Pausch This applies to Texas hold ‘em poker, as well as, to life. I pretty much have lived […]
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