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liz | 11:56 AM | anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, philadelphia, random
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.
One thing that helps me deal is playing pumped-up music while getting ready in the morning.
Dr. Becca prescribes the following songs:
“Bossy” by Kelis
“Put A Ring On It” by Beyonce**
“Extraordinary Machine” by Fiona Apple
“Judy and the Dream of Horses” by Belle & Sebastian
“Poker Face” by Lady Gaga
“With a Little Help From My Friends” by The Beatles
** hafta do the “All the single ladies!” call-backs though
If those don’t work, call forth the positive energies of the universe with an interpretive dance to “Brass in Pocket” by the Pretenders.
Also, the following mantra:
“Even though things aren’t how I want them to be and I don’t know how everything will turn out, I’M doing all the right things that a strong person in my situation would be doing–’cause I’m awesome and I’m The Shit.”
HA HA HA, I LOVE THE MANTRA!!!
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