Hope

Hope. When I have nothing left in me, when I have no more spoons and no more energy and no more tears to cry, I have hope.

6 Ways to Help Out the Spoonie

Having a mental illness or a chronic illness changes a lot about life. It affects our lives in so many ways. Too often the people in our lives don’t know how to take care of us. When someone you know...

The Difference Between Giving In and Giving Up

As you may be able to tell from my lack of writing lately and some of my posts, things have been hard.  This is an article I wrote a few months ago, when things were going well.  My boyfriend suggested I...

Gaining Perspective

I wrote this post a while ago.  I think it's worth a repost, especially with everything that's happened lately.  Trying to find my perspective right now, and reading this again helped me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For a long time after my diagnoses,...

The Delicate Tapestry of Mental and Chronic Illness

Most of the time, I write about what it’s like to be chronically ill. It’s easy for me to write about being chronically ill. In 2014, I was diagnosed with hemiplegic migraines, which has since turned into neuropathies, gastroparesis, severe...

Simple Ways to Deal with Anxiety

  Anxiety is such an unfortunate disease to deal with. Everyone deals with anxiety; even being excited is a form of anxiety. However, when it becomes pathological and interferes with our daily lives, it can cause serious deficits in functioning....

The Most Useful Phrase for Anyone with a Mental or Chronic Illness

  A chronically ill patient can always tell how well they are doing by when their next follow-up is. As recently as December of last year, I was granted — hold on to your hats — a three-month follow-up. And...

How to Have Better Relationships

  Relationships are the basis of human existence.  We all crave comfort, contact and love. We partner off, make families, make friends.  Life would be meaningless without relationships. But sometimes we take our relationships for granted.  Sometimes we aren't as kind...

10 Reasons I Will Never Give Up

  Sometimes life is hard. Actually a lot of the time life is hard. We expect life to be fair, for us all to be given the tools and the means to succeed and even exceed expectations. But then life...