“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.”
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liz | 9:55 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Words to live by…
Sorry I must write in Polish, becouse my english is terrible.
I found your wideo in youtube.
Bardo poruszyła mnie twoja historia, pierwsza myśl jaka mi przyszła do głowy to, że piękna jesteś. Lecz później po wnikliwym wysłuchaniu twojej wypowiedzi, zaczołem się oswajać że jesteś chora, muszę się przyznać, że przed obejrzeniem twojego nagrania nie traktowałem “wariatów” poważnie. To co ty zrobiłaś musiało Cię bardzo wiele kosztować, według mnie ten trud się opłacił. Oby tak dalej wierzę w Ciebie.
Hi there crazy!
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greetings from Poland from another mad girl!
I mean, yeah, I have all this bipolar crap but now I can deal with it.
I’m only 22 so it started recently.. now I get back to my studies again and everything seems to be preety normal..
remission time.. hopefully last forever..but it won’t
And here’s a corrolary by Albert Einstein:
“The value of achievement lies in the achieving.”
(I presume doing is the same as achieving. And you can have achievements. The being part gets a bit more complicated. But I think I get it.)
I have to say — lives based on doing are less free than lives based on being, and lives based on being are less free than lives based on becoming.
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