Mental Health: Friendship and Dissociative Identity Disorder

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
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
Wordless Wednesday
#WordlessWednesday: The Foothills — 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
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
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
Make your own story from the image
#WordlessWednesday: Memories of Market Street — Art by Rob Goldstein
A story from DemCast
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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