Editor’s note: this post is a continuation of the post I wrote yesterday. If you missed that it, read this first. I was admitted to Silver Hill in the third week of February in the year 2000. At the time, I was a 4th grade teacher in Wilton, CT. After 3 days in the Acute […]
Archives for May 2014
I’ll need you to give me your shoelaces.
About 14 years ago, I was hospitalized for depression. It was before I was married or had kids, and it would be the second of three times that I was committed somewhere. This second time, I was admitted to Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT. It’s a pretty swanky psychiatric hospital that provides treatment […]
There’s only so much time in a day.
I had a post in mind for today. I sat down at the computer at 5:22 a.m. to start writing. Numbers 5, 6, and 7 woke up at 5:44. It would have to wait. I dropped the kids off to school. Came home. Sold these to someone. Then sold this to someone else 15 minutes […]
The more the merrier.
I see my therapist every Wednesday. The office I go to is one of those places that has about 10 or 15 different social workers and psychologists and psychiatrists there. There are three different windows to check in when you get there. Today the place was packed. I had to wait in line for over 5 minutes. All […]
He said the L-word. Not the one you think.
Number 3 through 7 are all in bedrooms on the second floor. I won’t open their windows because that is a guarantee that one or more of them will either be dangling out of one of them or plummeting to his or her death. With the weather getting warmer, it’s been a little on the […]
Happy Memorial Day
I know today is about remembering those who have served our country and died in that process. I’m doing that. But I’m also just enjoying having a day free of worries. Just for the day. Happy Memorial Day! Number 1! Please keep me there! VOTE ! VOTE! VOTE ! VOTE! VOTE ! VOTE! VOTE ! […]