Mental Health, Bipolar Disorder, and Me: Not Just Surviving—Living
“I lost physical abilities to this illness. But I learned how to be human—and how to be happy.” Introduction: This Is Something We Need to Talk About Today I...
My StoryA collection of 12 posts
What I Experienced in 2024: I Finally Learned What Really Happened to Me
When the new year began, this was my situation: BALANCE When I was discharged from the hospital: * I couldn’t sit upright without falling to the sides. * I couldn’t...
What Happened After the Hospital – 2023
When I left the hospital, the joy of reuniting with my cats and being back home gave me full confidence that I’d recover quickly. We immediately set up physical...
The Rest of My Days in the Hospital
WEEK TWO They continued the antibiotics — two different kinds, twice a day. My fever hovered around 38°C. The nightmares had lessened a bit. Every morning they took blood; my...
When Everything Stopped: My First Days in the Hospital
THE HOSPITAL MORNING That morning, I couldn’t walk, couldn’t see, couldn’t speak. We went to another private hospital. They kept me in the emergency room for 3–...
Losing Balance, Finding Myself: The Start of My Neurological Journey
I just couldn’t make sense of anything. I had two projects to deliver, a house that needed cleaning, two cats and a partner to keep happy, and a stomach...