P.S.A. 1462

Just FYI, Halloween candy-colored vomit does NOT like to come entirely out of the near-white carpet in Hudson’s room at 1:30am.  Even with copious amounts of Resolve carpet cleaner.   Thank you, Emma Patterson, for the aforementioned Resolve, which was in with the leftover cleaning supplies you gave me when you moved.  Resolve did its [...]

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Two happy things:

Click this link (it’s even better if you REALLY remember the 80’s) and eat this:   The yogurt tastes almost like the Stracciatella joghurt we used to get in Germany.  And it’s only 140 calories.  Be warned that it’s dark chocolate and not super-sweet.  It’s heavenly, though, especially the associations with Germany that immediately flowed [...]

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Do I wish I’d never been born?

Uh, NO.  That’s the short answer.   Why would I even pose the question, you ask?  Well, because there’s a strong hereditary component to Bipolar Disorder.  It “tends to run in families,” so to speak.  And I have three children.  And I still want one more.  In fact, we had recently started trying for a [...]

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In which I have an anxiety attack over re-opening the blog and putting it all out there…

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I am not my disease. I hope.

For some reason this feels like I need to make it an AA-style confession, so here goes:   My name is Chrysta, and I am Bipolar.   I have been afraid of this ever since I was old enough to know what “manic-depressive” means.  Or, at least, what it means for my grandmother, who, as [...]

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