Meet the Seat
Well hello there, say hi to my low chair. It’s where I park my arse for therapy weekly and weakly at ward 13. It sits on the subordinate side of […]
Tag Archives: bipolar disorder in south africa
Waiting Rooms
It’s the same everywhere, isn’t it? Government facilities offer unparallelled opportunities to “hurry up and wait”. And we wait. And wait. For hours – placid as cattle. There’s just no […]
linkdump
Greetings and salutations, o best beloved and beleaguered bipolar tribe; now stand still while I dump some links all over you. Parental advisory for foul language later in the post. […]
Submission: Alex_elu
-“My nighttime sedation… my little piece of heaven the hours I’m not conscious of what’s happening in my reality”
Ward 13 & Clozapine
It was a ward 13 Wednesday yesterday, for therapy and to get meds. Starting and titrating Clozapine, tapering off lamotrigine and sertraline and chlorpromazine. Weekly white cell counts for a […]
Broken minds need community care
Source: One in three South Africans will be affected by a mental illness in their lifetime, according to the South African Stress and Health Study published in the South African […]
Discussion: the curse of self-doubt after an episode (depression)
After an episode I’m usually left totally exhausted, but also overwhelmed. Not necessarily by things I need to do (although that is sometimes the case), but more so because I find […]
Introducing Mental Floss Mondays
Mondays always seem to come around far too quickly, dragging along their own brand of anxiety tinged with depression, making for an almost insurmountable week. Here at Our Lived Experience […]
Community with a purpose
What makes us different? It is not just our diagnosis, it is how we share it with the world and how we relate to each other because of it. It […]
Coming Back to Life (Part 1)
Today’s post is a particularly heart-rending one. The subject is absolutely not specific to parenthood where there’s mental illness involved, and it’s very much about motherhood universally. It’s brutally honest […]
