About me

What I Write About

Hello, and welcome. Thanks for stopping by. It’s good to see you.

I write about mental health, mostly my own. Writing helps me clarify my thoughts and make sense of my actions. I’m great in hindsight. The goal is to be great in advance. I suspect I’m not unique in this challenge, however.

I write about my eating disorder and my recovery from it. It’s been a long process, not unexpectedly, as I lived with an active eating disorder for thirty-nine years. Recovery isn’t easy- the eating disorder doesn’t like to lose.

Within the mental illness pantheon, I focus on the aforementioned eating disorders, as well as anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and addiction.

Is it focused if there’s a list?

These are areas of interest to me because these are the challenges I live with. I share my stories so people can understand, and I read about other people’s experiences with mental illness, so I gain more insight.

I try to stick to areas of personal experience, except when I don’t.

If you’re the kind of person who likes to begin at the beginning, here’s a link to my first WordPress post. It’s called, predictably enough, First Times, and it’s about my first bulimic episode. It happened eight years into my eating disorder, and marked a profound and difficult escalation that almost took my life on several occasions.

I write about non-mental health things, as well. I write about the stray thoughts that pop into my head, though only some of them. Secrets can be a good thing. We don’t need to share our every thought and opinion, even though social media would have us believe otherwise.

Sometimes, there’s poetry, though that happens less often of late. Poetry is apparently like mathematics – your best work happens early in your life. Not that I have “best work.” I have work.

This is the joy of having your own blog – you can do with it as you wish. You also meet a great many interesting people.

I’m an opinionated person, and I can be rigid with it, mostly because I assume I’m right.

Arrogance is another of my fatal flaws.

My opinions and beliefs skew left, and are of the progressive and liberal type, in case you wondered.

I don’t always remember to add trigger warnings to possibly problematic posts, so consider yourself forewarned.

I publish regularly or when I feel like it. I’m like the tide; I ebb and flow. I tend to ebb more when things are difficult, a nice example of my tendency to head in the wrong direction. This is also something I’m working on.

Schedules can be a good thing.

My Book

I put together a collection of my eating disorder-related essays once upon a time. It’s a collection of the ten most popular ED posts on my site at the time of publishing. It was a successful experiment in seeing if I could do it. Completing tasks – or even beginning them – is a challenge when you live with depression. Often, everything feels too much.

The book is available in e-book and paperback versions.

I think I might have changed the cover. Cover tweaks and formatting changes are the kinds of busy work I enjoy. It would probably sell better if I engaged in some form of promotion instead of periodic re-editing, but there’s a reason I didn’t go into sales.

If you pick up a copy, I’d love a review. Especially one that’s kind.