Mental-health based blog, peppered with art, terrible Swedish music videos, observations on The Absurd & I hope just the right blend of silliness.
Any Borderline could use this piece of wisdom, it’s like a kick in the ass, but is good to have for those of us who love in survival mode.
Borderline Girl Song Week Five: Fiona Apple “Every Single Night” « Melancholically Manic Mouse says: […] life have to be a battle? I don’t know, but I know it is for those of us who, as Jill over at Not Quite Lost, mentioned ”live in survival […]
Sitting in the window watching for my kids’ bus. A car pulls up and a boy, 7 or 8 in baseball getup, gets out and runs to the back of the house across the street. The car, silver, idles – a man inside. I start to hear pounding, as of fists on a door. The pitch […]
The depression is ingrained after so many years – there almost every day – but every day seems to have it’s own manifestation. I almost wish I was at my worst so I could hospitalize and be cared for. I wish I was dead but am not suicidal, the ideation is there but not the […]
A few more minor events stand out. There was a girl, 10 or 11, who had a paper route on North Beacon. My little gang – my Lebanese neighbors, a Jamaican girl from across the street – and I secretly mocked her. She must have been the only white girl in the neighborhood besides me. […]
Patrick Gannon is an American cut-paper artist who works and lives in Japan. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the US, Europe and Asia.
I didn’t know I had Complex PTSD until I was 36 years old. I deliberately turned off my trauma – tossed it, pretended it never happened – when Social Services removed my sister and I from our mother’s custody and placed us with our newly sober and forever ex-criminal father. We never talked about our […]
Not Quite Lost 
FOR YOU 🙂 FROM SHIRLEY —– LOL AND THE BOYS 🙂
GOODNIGHT 🙂
you rock, thank you! they remind me so much of yyy’s arc-wise – every record is a little more mature, a little more polished. Love that kind of consistency! Girl power! Sweet dreams, thanks Cat! XOXO
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YOU HAVE GOOD EARS 🙂 ARC-WISE …………
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NIGHT NIGHT XOXOXO
Hi Jill,
Just to let you know that I nominated you for an awrd today. I hope that is ok as I really do feel you have earned the nomination. You can find your nomination here. http://voicesofglass.com/2012/06/12/a-special-award/ Hope you are well,
Kind Regards,
Kevin.
Hahahaha, that’s great, I was nominating you for one or two also!!!! Just haven’t gotten to it yet. I have 250 blog posts to read through! Thank you, you’re a diamond, Kevin!
Best,
J
Thank you for sharing Jill. Survival mode. Even before my diagnosis I used to use that word. “I’m in survival mode all the time” I remember writing.
Hope you’re taking care.
HUGS
I have an Award for you!
http://carlarenee45.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/award-time-for-me/