justbreathe444

I used to play for a few years but never really became an expert- I stopped for a few reasons but always regretted it and wish I had continued- might be time for me to resume this long lost dream!

slowly chiseling away at this one but its a toughie! i have to make a lot of calls for work so its almost made it tougher to get over the personal side of it. I’m on the phone so much at work that now its partially the fear and partially that i’m simply exhausted from spending so much time on the phone!!!! i need to find a happy medium.

there is still an embarassing stigmata attached to mental illness and some sort of trendiness that is beginning to crop up. i struggle with my own label- in a hospital ER for what was later (much later!!) determined to be a physical ailment, i once was ignored for hours when my mother let it slip that i was bi-polar. the admitting nurse scrawled “BI POLAR” in big letters across the middle of the chart and underlined it 3 times. at the end of the night, when i gave up on treatment and went home, i had a prescription for nausea when i went in with heart palpitations and shortness of breath.
i’ve seen friends shy frightened away and others go “i dunno you don’t look sick to me”- mental illness like physical illness has its symptoms & level of seriousness- some require more treatment than others but they all exist and shouldn’t be ignored, diminished or prejudiced against.

no one should be ignored diminished or prejuidiced against for any reason at any time.