Tag: A Canvas Of The Minds

After a very emotional week, I am happy to report that today (last night, really) was the first nightmare-free night in what felt like the first time in forever. I feel like breaking up in song like Anna of Arendelle. I woke up and it was so weird that at first I couldn’t identify the READ MORE

When you have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, life is one hell of a ride. But that doesn’t say much, does it, now? There’s hell of a ride and then there’s hell of a ride. The one I’m talking about is the kind that feels like a Russian Roulette. By which I mean, I never know READ MORE

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine Let it shine, Let it shine, Let it shine. Did you sing this song as a child? I did. It started as a gospel song, READ MORE

I wasn’t expecting it from this source.  Actually I had seen this particular health professional about five times and had decided that she knew her stuff.  What’s more, I had decided that she was responding to what I was saying to the extent that I felt comfortable with her.  A big thing. But I admit READ MORE

Trigger Warning:  As indicated by the title, this post discusses suicide.  Not graphically, and not in detail, but if the topic is especially triggering to you, you may want to make the choice not to read on. Today is 10 September 2015, a day that has been designated World Suicide Prevention Day by the International READ MORE

The past 10 or so days have proved enormously instructive for me.  They’ve provided the kind of instruction I hear tell of from my parents’ days in Catholic school in the 50s and 60s, when one of the nuns would slap a student or turn from a sweet, soft-spoken angel of a teacher into the READ MORE

 This post contains discussion of chronic suicidal thinking. There are no actual suicides described or images.  Please read at your discretion.   I was sitting in the office of my Pain Management Specialist.  Also in the office was a medical student.  I know most people don’t like medical students sitting in on appointments, but I READ MORE

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s March already. But I was basically incomunicada. For more reasons than one. But! I finally have internet at home! So, I’m back… Barely. WordPress looks completely different. It took me a few moments to find my way back to Canvas from my personal blog. For those of you not familiar READ MORE

The receptionist thought it would be a good idea to schedule my physical at the same time as my three daughters’. Since you all have to come in anyway . . . she’d said. In theory, yes. In reality? Imagine keeping three ping-pong balls from smashing into each other or the four very close walls of READ MORE

That’s right, it’s finally on! Blog For Mental Health 2015 is here! Well, actually, it’s over at The Official Blog For Mental Health Project site.  Truth is, while Canvas was the launching pad for the project the last two years, and while I want to continue to keep you updated here, BFMH has grown so much that is READ MORE