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Continue reading →: You Don’t Need to Be Perfect ….You don’t have to be perfect. Look at me hospitalized August put on a 5150 hold, twice and again in October then sent to residential for 22 days, PHP, then rehab for 8 days and now in sober living. No matter how you get there, get there and be proud.…
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Continue reading →: Know Your Calm ….Recently I’ve been really calm adjusting to new meds, Vyvanse and attending AA meetings everyday via zoom I’m in the middle of my 90 and 90, that’s 90 AA meetings in 90 days. To jump start my sobriety, I initially got sober 04/02/2017 but recently due to stress went back…
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Continue reading →: CBT: Cognitive Distortions …Today in PHP we learned about cognitive distortions. What are cognitive distortions? “Cognitive distortions are internal mental filters or biases that increase our misery, fuel our anxiety, and make us feel bad about ourselves.” [1] We are continuously processing information and the shortcuts we create for ourselves help us with…
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Continue reading →: Back to Normal …I had a rough start to PHP, and trouble getting settled but this week plan to go everyday. I did great off adderrall but for some reason back on the med got disorganized managing my time on the treadmill and just have to be careful I don’t take extra, on…
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Continue reading →: DBT: The Three Minds …Today we learned about the three minds: (1) rational mind (2) emotional mind and (3) the wise mind. This is a DBT skill. With mindfulness focusing on the present moment can be met with challenges, while assessing what you’re doing and what’s happening. By breaking up our understanding of the…
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Continue reading →: Recognizing Wellness …Today is a day when I have lost progress experienced wellness discussed difficulty had bad days made every effort to be social and to have done my best and for my best effort to be good enough and considered a worthwhile effort to write if it’s on issues important to…
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Continue reading →: There’s No Place Higher than Wellness …There’s no place higher than wellness and maybe it was humorous to hear summaries about my mental health and hospitalizations, I can’t fix how I’m interpreted and can do my best as a person who works hard to not also allow my life to become so serious that I get…
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Continue reading →: Hustled & Emergency Demands …. (Dropped Care)
I was dropped as a patient and diagnosed with “schizophrenia” and suffered embarrassment and public humiliation and I recovered anyways hospitalized or not, and if it’s not about mental health and if “voices” differ for me than everyone who gets voices why are my voices labeled bad? So it’s not…
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Continue reading →: Email to Brady, scotus, NY DA, and my Attorney ….Early in my recovery off adderrall I put forward a solid effort and more of me was required to complete this program and given a hard time upon starting adderrall again 20 mg because of doing the treadmill all night spontaneously walked 15 miles, which shows the benefits of no…







