After more than 20 years of not going to a grocery store, restaurant, or public place alone, not driving out of my safe area and not attending school functions for my children, I began my difficult recovery from panic disorder, agoraphobia, and social anxiety disorder.
I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. I certainly understand that I have been either manic or depressive throughout my life. However I don’t believe that there is only one method of dealing with that, and I certainly don’t believe that only a psychiatric drug regimen is the only way to deal with that.
It is springtime and hope is everywhere. It is springtime and it feels like all living things are trembling into being, still wet and new and fragile and determined to put down roots and grow.
