Introduction

Hi, there. Thanks for visiting. I'm starting this blog as an advocate for mental and physical health. I'm a freelance writer and also own a home based medical transcription business. I was diagnosed in 1978 with paranoid schizophrenia and started to become acutely ill three years prior to that, unmedicated, frightened, confused, and in trouble with the law. I graduated from university with distinction the year I became ill. I've never regretted learning how to think at university. I struggled with my illness for 35 years and have reached the top of the mountain now, I think, or the other side, where the grass is greener and the path easier. There's hope for all of us, the whole human race, and never think there isn't hope or joy no matter your circumstances. I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences with mental illness in all its forms: depression, brain injury, autism, schizophrenia, bipolar, anxiety disorders, etc. and your positive experiences as well as those lies and half truths society and even therapists would have us believe about ourselves.

We are different folks, and we are beautiful. The whole human race is beautiful. Let's celebrate life.

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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Two Poems

Ritalin Sky

by Kenna McKinnon

Oh, Ritalin sky

All cream and grey and cozy

Sun coming up

On my subconscious rosy

Peach-colored thoughts

Heart like lambskin leather

Oh, Ritalin sky

How you've changed the weather!

Pamelor

Pamelor oh Pamelor
How you make my feelings soar
How I love Nortriptyline
On which my psych is rather keen
And there is nothing better for
Bipolar folks than Pamelor.

by Pill Shakespeare (aka Kenna Mary McKinnon)