Jessika with a "k"
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Policy and Research Analyst |
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm mother to a beautiful boy, I have a house, a great job, an amazing husband, and a mental illness that makes me often wish I could go to sleep and never wake up. While I spent a year as an outpatient (post spending one month as an inpatient) in therapy, I learned many things. Problem is, those many things, while useful and true, don't cure mental illness. Nor do the various medications. Turns out they expect you to manage this for the rest of your life. In the hope that others will find these lessons of use as I struggle to use them in my daily life, once a week a structured post on a specific mechanism or practice for dealing with anxiety will be posted, with both my experience and suggestions for practical use, in addition to writing about my experiences with psychiatric care. Also, I’m pretty sure I’m hilarious. In addition to regular posts as I’ve indicated above, there will also be random posts posted randomly, which will mostly but not always pertain to the matter at hand. Links to other resources I have found useful will be posted as well, as any information that may lead to an epiphany in your recovery is always worth investigating. Really. I’m very funny. |
| Interests | Gardening, parenting, parenthood, pie, mental illness, anxiety, mothers, motherhood, mindfulness, psychotherapy, children, friends, |
| Favorite books | Children of the Forest, Outlander, One fish two fish, Red fish Blue Fish (Dr. Seuss). |