My Blog – Food for Thought
Thomas Jefferson would say I’m in charge of my own well being
Thomas Jefferson would say I'm in charge of my own well being. I gladly accept help from family, friends, community and the United States government, but if I give them control over my mental health I also give up the key ingredient of recovering from PTSD. That key...
Mania and the Muse
Bipolar disorder defined my life as much as a wheelchair. Like so many others blessed with the curse of bipolar disorder, a.k.a. manic depression, prescription drugs did not help, but left me feeling like my mind had been hijacked and was pulling me deeper into a...
Planting a garden and looking forward to the harvest is so much more than surviving
One path to reintegration after deployment is through a garden