Pre my depression and be worst, but with medication I have insomnia which affects my quality of life in a different way, but actually feels like it's in a worse way. I'd much rather have better sleep
I am exhausted just reading the bullet points of your live from pre-medication. (and my bullet points also have periods, and parenthesis) . Anna, you lived 10 lifetimes in those ten years of mania. Medicated Anna is present for Steve, H, L and the rest of her family and friends and is still readily available for the community at large when there is a need.
I feel compelled to say - You started Hill Cares (not that anyone but me probably remembers) helping hundreds of kids and their families a year. That’s not simply volunteering at your kids’ school. Just one example among many. I love the telling of your story but you’re slightly short shifting the post- era.
It’s a very effective component of the story that the writing about the pre- medication era feels manic and the post- feels muted.
I’ve gone off medication and I’m still deciding how I feel about the range of emotions I now suffer?/enjoy?
Yowza. Love this. The luge-run Anna: stunningly innovative, yikes impulsive, swan-diving escape. I was laughing, grabbing my hair, wowing, crestfall-ing. The grounded Anna: breathing, loving, choosing presence, still very funny (perhaps drier wit).
But the essential question for our times? What do we gain, what do we loose when we use meds to bring us to earth (vs in the exosphere, or beneath the earth)?
Pre my depression and be worst, but with medication I have insomnia which affects my quality of life in a different way, but actually feels like it's in a worse way. I'd much rather have better sleep
I am exhausted just reading the bullet points of your live from pre-medication. (and my bullet points also have periods, and parenthesis) . Anna, you lived 10 lifetimes in those ten years of mania. Medicated Anna is present for Steve, H, L and the rest of her family and friends and is still readily available for the community at large when there is a need.
Wow I have so many feelings about this.
I feel compelled to say - You started Hill Cares (not that anyone but me probably remembers) helping hundreds of kids and their families a year. That’s not simply volunteering at your kids’ school. Just one example among many. I love the telling of your story but you’re slightly short shifting the post- era.
It’s a very effective component of the story that the writing about the pre- medication era feels manic and the post- feels muted.
I’ve gone off medication and I’m still deciding how I feel about the range of emotions I now suffer?/enjoy?
Yowza. Love this. The luge-run Anna: stunningly innovative, yikes impulsive, swan-diving escape. I was laughing, grabbing my hair, wowing, crestfall-ing. The grounded Anna: breathing, loving, choosing presence, still very funny (perhaps drier wit).
But the essential question for our times? What do we gain, what do we loose when we use meds to bring us to earth (vs in the exosphere, or beneath the earth)?
Book-worthy, Anna.
I love you mania-less. You’re PRESENT