Z is for Zzzzzzz’s

Hello Friends and fellow bloggers.  I sat and thought for a long time about what would be a fitting end with an appropriate amount of Zest to the final Z for our mental illness alphabet.  It dawned on me that I have written this alphabet over such a long period of time that the first …

Y is for YOU GOT THIS

Hi Friends - Y today is for something I have never ever truly believed it.  Not since I was diagnosed. No. On that day I believed that someone potentially believeable (Psychiatrist) was telling me that I was broken, needed medication for the rest of my life which would make me fat, sleepy and generally unproductive, …

X is for I don’t know

Hello Fellow Bloggers and Friends - I hope you are ok and dealing as best you can with the challenging COVID reality we all confront.  Before this virulently active panic-demic set in, I was writing a mental illness alphabet with important facts, tips and life lessons for the average mental illness Jill.  And today I …

Coping Essentials: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Morning Friends and Fellow Bloggers from an increasingly cold South Africa. Perhaps overseas friends are used to it, but when in supposedly warm Africa,  you have to "crack open" the blanket to temporarily lie in a freezer before falling asleep, well. Lying in my freezer last night and thinking about where we all are, I …

Because COVID

Hello Friends.  How are you?  How are you coping or the lack thereof during this time? I'm not sure.  Right now the only thing that I feel I am sure of is that I am not ok.   In some ways this has been because of the dire situation we find ourselves in.  I've tried …

Keep Calm and Carry On

So I don't write often because writing at the moment is a little bit like trying to do a crossword in a tornado.  There I would be quietly penning my word, pondering on a question and then be sobered by a cow and car flying by.  At least that's what I think it would be …

Perserverance

Hello Friends and Fellow Bloggers.  I hope and pray that each and everyone of you are safe, and doing okay-ish, given the circumstances.  There is so much scary stuff going on right now, regardless of where you may live, and honestly, my ability to write has been seriously impeded by this. I could not think …

W is for Warrior Woman

Dear Friends - Bloggers - I dunno, World.  I have not written for a while.   I couldn't.  At first it was because I didn't know what to say.  A fellow blogger challenged me to pen W in our mental illness alphabet as Women and I was stumped.   How could I write about the warrior women …

V is for Violence

Morning friends and readers from a Corona-concerned South Africa and world.  It's Monday and thus fitting that we start the week off with a rather loud letter in our alphabet. I almost penned that V was for virus, but then that wouldn't be the most important V that has happened to me and I think, many …

U is for Unique

Twenty two years ago I was a teenager that got into trouble.  I was pregnant, and on the eve of giving birth.  I was afraid honestly, I had seen and heard about the birth theoretically, and although I was in love with the little sometimes strong being in my body, well I just wasn't sure …