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Yearly Archives: 2011

So Long, 2011!

[photo credit: Peter Jukes]
Wow.  New Year’s kind of snuck up on me this year.  We’ve been in a vacation coma of eating junk food and watching movies for over a week now and it just dawned on me yesterday that today is New Year’s Eve.   We don’t have any big plans for the evening.  I [...]

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Christmas Love

I look at our pictures from Christmas last year and I can’t believe how much Rye has changed.   Last Christmas he was shorter than both Don and I.  And he looked young.  Like a kid.  This Christmas, he is 6′2″.  Without shoes on.  He looks like a teen.   This Christmas he towers over me and [...]

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Sick

photo credit: The Vintage
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I have been sick for the past week.  I have a virus that I just cannot shake and now Don has it too.  It started in my head as a cold, moved to what felt like a sinus infection until I bought a Neti pot and really started flushing out my sinuses [...]

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Hello Weekend

Well, things are back to normal at the homestead.   Rye had a good rest of the week, as did the rest of us.  Don and I went to a Christmas party last night and it was the first time in I can’t even remember when I dressed up in a skirt, etc.  It was a [...]

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Derailed

It was overdue, I guess.  Things have been really good for months now despite nonstop huge life changes.
I spent the last day and a half with a derailed Rye.  He called me from school the morning after last completely frantic.  Seven calls in a row.   Each with a new physical ailment for which he needed [...]

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Deep Psychological Assistance

First of all, let me preface this post by saying that if you landed here via Google search and are looking for real psychological assistance, this is not the post for you.  This is simply an anecdote about my life.  Sorry.
With that said…here goes.
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Growing up the child of a mental health professional (and I’m [...]

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Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a very nice Thanksgiving weekend here.  It was very low key as it was just Rye, Don and I and it was very relaxed.  We made a big turkey dinner on Thanksgiving and then the next day as our weekend outing we went on a boat ride, did some sight seeing, went out [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Abilify, Stimulants, Antidepressants and Suicide

[photo credit: www.thebipolarmarriage.com]
A few years back I wrote about how my son (who was 12 at the time) took Abilify as a stand alone medication for a few months and had suicidal thoughts while he was taking it.   This was unusual for him as he is not a suicidal kid in general and when we [...]

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Hello Winter!

There is snow in the mountains here and it is beautiful!
Hello ski season!
Hello winter!

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The New Psychiatrist

We met with the new psychiatrist this week.  Or what may become the new psychiatrist.  I say ‘may’ because I have also made an appointment with another psychiatrist so we’ll see who we like better.
So, how was he?  Well, ok, I guess.  This one is fairly young.  He’s less than 10 years out of med [...]

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