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Monthly Archives: February 2018

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Hey Dr. Phil! We are not “Idiots.”

Just For Fun, Quest for SanityBy RickFebruary 20, 20181 Comment

Mentally ill? For most of recorded history the treatment was barbaric. Labeled as witches, we were burned at the stake or weighted down and thrown into icy water. If we floated we were “guilty.” Fished out and sent to said burning stake. Sink to the bottom? Well then we were “innocent”… and dead. England saw…

god, meds and recovery

Embracing Sobriety, Quest for Sanity, Spiritual PrinciplesBy RickFebruary 12, 2018Leave a comment

So 12-step recovery suggests I find a God (or god) of my own understanding. That’s a hard enough task for your average alcoholic or addict. But when bipolar mania, coupled with psychosis, once had you convinced that you were God… of rather that more obscure member of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, that is some…

And it begins like this…

Embracing Sobriety, Just For Fun, Quest for Sanity, Slices of LifeBy RickFebruary 4, 2018Leave a comment

I’m taking a whiz in an inappropriate place again. Apparently five plus years of sobriety have done little to suppress “the world is my toilet” viewpoint that I subscribe to. Tonight it’s the side of a forest-green Waste Management Dumpster behind a Fry’s supermarket. The street sweeping company I drive for has sent me to…

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