Mental Health: Friendship and Dissociative Identity Disorder

The Monkey Dance of the Narcissist

Mental Health: Our Useless Rights

#WordlessWednesday: Detention Center

#WordlessWednesday: Trump’s Dystopia

#WordlessWednesday: Mad Love

#MentalHealth: Ten Tips for Blogging With DID — Art by Rob Goldstein

I’ve learned a few things about blogging with Dissociative Identity Disorder in the years since I first posted this. I’ve learned that most people can’t and won’t understand DID; the people I want in my life are the people who try. I’ve learned that I do not owe anyone an apology for the DID, nor […]

#MentalHealth: Ten Tips for Blogging With DID — Art by Rob Goldstein

#WordlessWednesday: Xanax

#Politics: The 10 (or more) Top Reasons I Stand with Joe Biden

#WordLessWednesday: We Are Not the Problem

#Music: The Incredible Etta

Meditation: A Portrait of the Christ — Art by Rob Goldstein

Matthew 38-48 38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the […]

Meditation: A Portrait of the Christ — Art by Rob Goldstein

#WordlessWednesday: One Sweet Dream

Poetry: The Prayer

A Day in the Hospital

The Politics of Everyday Evil

#WordlessWednesday: One Night

#WordlessWednesday: On the Corner of Turk and Ellis

Rosa Parks and the Power of No

Guest Blogger, Rena Korb: Fighting for a More Perfect Union

#WordlessWednesday: The Foothills — Art by Rob Goldstein

Wordless Wednesday

#WordlessWednesday: The Foothills — Art by Rob Goldstein

Gerontophobia

Reagan, Trump and the Cruelty of Predatory Capitalism — Art by Rob Goldstein

How do we trust our government when the President is a pathological liar?

Reagan, Trump and the Cruelty of Predatory Capitalism — Art by Rob Goldstein

#WordlessWednesday: Manifest the Dream

#WordlessWednesday: Soliloquy

The Man Who Forgot He Doesn’t Exist — Art by Rob Goldstein

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a childhood-onset trauma symptom induced by an overwhelming confrontation with human evil before the brain can create a functional mind. When my psychiatrist diagnosed DID in 2009, I was already too symptomatic to work. I had no interest in social media, but I compulsively staged virtual photoshoots in Second Life and […]

The Man Who Forgot He Doesn’t Exist — Art by Rob Goldstein

June 27th: National PTSD Awareness Day — Art by Rob Goldstein

Originally posted on Addicted To Living: (Image source: http://covingtonweekly.com/2017/06/29/disposable-heroes-ptsd-awareness-day/ ) More often than not, people tend to associate the acronym, PTSD, with veterans returning from war. This is because throughout the years of World War I and after World War II, many veterans faced severe PTSD, or “shell shock.” However, this is only one possible…

June 27th: National PTSD Awareness Day — Art by Rob Goldstein

Trauma in a Culture of Abuse

I Believe

This relationship is killing us

#WordlessWednesday: Memories of Market Street — Art by Rob Goldstein

Make your own story from the image

#WordlessWednesday: Memories of Market Street — Art by Rob Goldstein

Pride 2020: Harvey Milk and The Power of Hope — Art by Rob Goldstein

If a gay can win, there’s hope.

Pride 2020: Harvey Milk and The Power of Hope — Art by Rob Goldstein

The Value of Life in a Pandemic

A story from DemCast

One Nation, Under Attack — Art by Rob Goldstein

Russia uses ‘insight’ into our intellectual and regional differences to model our decision-making process to target specific groups with the half-truths and lies most likely to provoke a ‘reflexive’ decision that benefits Russia at our expense.

One Nation, Under Attack — Art by Rob Goldstein

Trauma in a Culture of Abuse — Art by Rob Goldstein

Recovery is finding the will to believe that life is more than a savage facade of well-mannered hypocrisy and hate.

Trauma in a Culture of Abuse — Art by Rob Goldstein

The Incubus

Trina: Madison Speaks

Trina: Madison Speaks — Art by Rob Goldstein

This is a response to the November Writing Prompt on Myths of the Mirror, which is to write something from a non-human perspective. Madison Speaks We’re at her imaginary park again. I hate this park! It’s not like I can DO anything. I can watch, I can listen, I can politely speak my mind. Last […]

Trina: Madison Speaks — Art by Rob Goldstein

The “I Say It’s my Birthday” Blog Party!

Poetry: The Silence — Art by Rob Goldstein

She slips off her rocker and giggles: can it be can it be that all I can see is reality? She says, “Last night I thought I heard God, but it mighta been the Supremes.” Wanna die, wanna die from flying so high today I am ten and tomorrow I’m 60. More quiet, more quiet, […]

Poetry: The Silence — Art by Rob Goldstein

Photography: After Alprazolam — Art by Rob Goldstein

#SaturdayThoughts

Photography: After Alprazolam — Art by Rob Goldstein

Beckie’s Mental Mania Manic Mess

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Poetry: Quicksand or Time — Art by Rob Goldstein

kneel into self as thick as quicksand or time as short as life this mind: fritz! still soft words then, dreams of me on the young streets at dusk, still reaching for night. (c) Rob Goldstein 2014-2019 Save

Poetry: Quicksand or Time — Art by Rob Goldstein

It Ain’t Easy Being Meat

Poetry: The Prayer — Art by Rob Goldstein

I have loved me some men, Lord: me always in command as God intended — The redheads and the blonds, where are they now, I wonder — wretched without me, I assume. So, who is this twit with a mind of his own? Does he know I can’t live without him? Will you tell him, […]

Poetry: The Prayer — Art by Rob Goldstein

Introducing My First Chapbook: A Skeleton in the Attic

Introducing My First Chapbook: A Skeleton in the Attic — Art by Rob Goldstein

I took a break in September, returned in early October to post Teagan Geneviene’s feature, then decided I wasn’t ready to resume posting. Why? Trump’s impeachment. There is so much news; keeping up with it feels like a full time job. I may limit myself to two posts a week during the impeachment. Now to […]

Introducing My First Chapbook: A Skeleton in the Attic — Art by Rob Goldstein

#WordlessWednesday: Morning Glory

Circumstances of Childhood — Art by Rob Goldstein

Originally posted on Author & Songwriter Kevin Cooper: When a former pro football star and broadcaster, now a Wall Street maven is accused of insider trading, will he be able to prove his innocence and expose those who are guilty?Greg and his boyhood pal dreamed of big success in professional football and then later in…

Circumstances of Childhood — Art by Rob Goldstein

October’s Featured Blogger: Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene — Art by Rob Goldstein

I am back from my break and the good news is I finished my project. I’ll go into that project in another post. October’s Featured Blogger is Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene Teagan was my first Featured Blogger in 2017. I asked Teagan to come back to give us an update because while I was on break, Teagan […]

October’s Featured Blogger: Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene — Art by Rob Goldstein