Meet me in the Day Room
I’ve been a little busy. I’m in clinicals 3 days a week and working my butt off studying for two tests a week. I mean I’ve literally been working my butt off. I’ve lost 48 pounds. I average over 10,000 steps per shift at the hospital. My pedometer doesn’t measure moving patients, making beds, and [...]
My pill demons have been exorcised. Either that or I’m tired f embroidering pills. I feel great about what I’ve created. With this series, I am finally able to call myself an artist without sarcasm and self depreciation. I am because I do. For those of you following along at home, here is my artist’s [...]
I grew up thinking that my grades and school conduct were my “permanent record.” Not so. My permanent record is my medical record. In 1993, someone decided that I had Bipolar Disorder. That diagnosis followed me for over 10 years. I never believed it, but every mental health care professional who treated me did, so [...]
Some of the search terms that lead readers here are heartbreaking. If you are searching for comfort from loneliness, cutting addiction, fear of prozac, help for pain…I hope you’re finding some hope here. I am always available though email: alexcateye@msn.com. (I want to give you a chance to talk, even if it’s just to a [...]
Wellbutrin is a strange little pill. It looks like a happy piece of candy. It gives me bizarre nightmares like it’s coated in sugar and hallucinogenic drugs. Still, happy is happy. Wellbutrin is still part of the cocktail I take every day. I have no ill feelings, only appreciation. Wellbutrin makes Montana winters possible for [...]
I don’t think of my years of medication as bad years. Medications can be confusing. Side effects are irritating. Drowsiness sometimes feels like chemical restraints–a straight jacket in a bottle. The worst years of my life were the unmedicated ones. I’m not saying that I didn’t take any drugs in my mid twenties, I just [...]
Embroidered Prozac capsule as self-directed art therapy.
October 31, 2010
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