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Monday, April 20, 2009
Manic Depression: My Experience
By guest blogger Ruth C. White, Ph.D., MPH, MSW Manic depression can be hell and it can be war and it can be creative and intense but overall it can be destructive but though I may never really win the fight I can build walls to protect what most needs protecting and give it a forest or two where its flames can rage. Every fall I spend several weekends trying to preserve the little sanity I have left and trying to find some more. It means lying in bed avoiding as much reality as I can because I have little energy or patience to deal with any of it. I preserve what I can to give to my job and my child. Fall is when I hang on to sanity with my knuckles about to split from the pressure of hanging on to the ledge; hoping for anyone to either put out the foam pads so I can let go, pull me back over the edge or at least prop up my legs to take the pressure off. November is the time I call the on-call nurse begging for a hospital bed. It's also the time I get to know who my friends...
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