Dare to connect

We may not share disorders in common, and we may share feelings of low self-worth.

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Your hobby or your life?

[This blog may use we/us and I/me pronouns interchangeably] We used to write fiction for fun. We wrote a humorous novel. It took us, like, twelve years to finish it. Maybe longer. We worked diligently on it for the last five or six years. It was among our primary hobbies and consumed many a weekend. …

Do you rank your disorders?

Are health insurance company interests influencing your mental health treatment?

Are we asleep or awake right now? Why it matters.

Practicing presence, after using dissociative states to survive for the past forty years, feels the same as if a doctor told us, "You've been living wrong all these years. Breathing air is harmful. You're supposed to be holding your breath forever, not breathing." That is how automatic dissociating has become. 

How to not be a victim when you’ve been, well, a victim

Are you re-enacting the victim-perpetrator-rescuer triangle? If so, you are in good company (we do it). Here is why and how to stop.

The meaning of life revealed

Which pursuit is worth our life’s energy? It’s not the one you think. Yes, this post will really reveal the meaning of life.

You are not invincible, so protect yourself from financial devastation and shame

Our goals in this blog post are to encourage you to obtain disability insurance or supplement your existing coverage, to warn you of the pitfalls of the disability insurance system, and to convince ourselves and you that we are not our financial status or our diagnoses.