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Pets have always been so essential in my life. I started begging for a pet bird when I was seven years old. At age eight, a green and white parakeet named Perky arrived and we were instantly inseparable....

Before I started my Bipolar medications I was a healthy slim size but was unstable mentally, always swinging up and down between two extremes, often self-harming and suicidal, often in crisis and generally very unhappy most of the time....

I love good food, but sometimes what most attracts me to a restaurant is the setting and the views. At one of my favorite Santa Barbara restaurants, I can sit out on the porch on the top floor,...

Dissociative Disorders are characterized as mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection between reality and fantasy. Individuals that have this disorder often lack continuity between thoughts,...

I was recently in a shop with a friend when a young man in his late twenties came in to get his hair cut. Friendly and likeable he was amusing the hairdresser with some stories of his birthday....

If I tell you I was working on something and then I got distracted, you probably visualize me dropping whatever I was working on and going to do something else....

Question: What’s the tastiest Easter treat to ease stress?  Answer: the raw carrots left for the Easter Bunny. Wrong! The correct answer, per this chocolate devotee, is the delicious milk-chocolate bunny;...

So, this is yesterday’s post, but this is not yesterday. I write three posts a week, sometimes I write my first post on Monday, and sometimes I write it on Tuesday....

4 ways Trump’s presidency has evoked a sense of powerlessness: 1) Marginalization – when an individual or group minimizes or disavows the legitimacy, rights or privileges of others who are believed to be somehow different from the mainstream....

Today I love sunshine through my window and into my home. I love that the temperature is supposed to climb up into the sixties today and that’s pretty good when you live half way between the north pole and the equator. ...

Have you ever wondered what different toys foster in your child’s inner world? Let me tell you about a few of them. Charles Schaefer,...

  I asked some of my autistic friends, and this is what they had to say: Because I forget that it matters to you when I’m focusing on what you are saying....

The New York Times ran an article on March 10 that’s been getting a lot of attention on Facebook. I just saw it yesterday or I’d have written this sooner. ...

What do you do when you realise your own mother is trying to steal everything your little sister holds dear? It’s not a new thing. My mother has been insanely jealous of her youngest daughter,...

Do you feel like you don’t have a voice in your relationship? Does your partner always have to have the last word?...