They’re coming for you …
From one of my favorite people, Therese Borchard, a slideshow of advice. It’s delightful and totally on point.
liz | 11:48 AM | 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.
Hey there. I just stumbled across your vlogging entries on YouTube and I want to commend you for what you’re doing about bringing mental illness out of the shadows. Kudos to you. =o)
I take Zoloft right now and I recently saw the psychiatrist and she prescribed Cymbalta. Having read many of the “horror stories” about coming off of Cymbalta, I’m hesitant to even start. Zoloft is working pretty well right now. Why mess with it, you know? Anyway, great thing that you’re doing; I’m looking forward to perusing your blog. I’m going to link to it from mine. Peace.
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