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Janet Coburn

Weed: Yes Please or No Thanks

I know that some people swear by the benefits of marijuana for relieving their psychiatric symptoms. They find it calms their anxiety…

Jan 25

Weed: Yes Please or No Thanks

Jan 25

Learning From Mistakes (Or Not)

When I was young, I was supposed to learn from mistakes. Other people’s mistakes, not my own. My parents were devotés of the “No one is so…

Jan 25

Learning From Mistakes (Or Not)

Jan 25

When You Can’t Tell If Dreams Are Real

When my husband has bad dreams, he has the ability to wake himself up or change the dream. At different times, Dan’s been able to realize…

Jan 19

When You Can’t Tell If Dreams Are Real

Jan 19

Go. Be Funny.

Once the boss editor gave me an assignment. “Go,” he said. “Be funny,” he said. “Come back in an hour.” We were preparing a calendar with…

Jan 19

Go. Be Funny.

Jan 19

How Insurance Handles SMI

Why are so many people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) underinsured or unable to get insurance at all? As you may guess, a large part of…

Jan 5

How Insurance Handles SMI

Jan 5

My Husband, the Saint

Once upon a time (as all good fairytales begin), a coworker of mine started referring to my husband as “Saint Dan.” I regularly told tales…

Jan 5

My Husband, the Saint

Jan 5

Overeating and Bipolar Disorder

When you think about co-occurring disorders associated with bipolar disorder, you generally think of drug or alcohol abuse. But there’s…

Dec 29, 2024

Overeating and Bipolar Disorder

Dec 29, 2024

The Acceptable Addiction

Once upon a time (okay, it was in high school), when I still had aspirations of becoming a poet, I took a creative writing class. (The…

Dec 29, 2024

The Acceptable Addiction

Dec 29, 2024

Hello, Post-Traumatic Growth

I’ve had my share of trauma in my life. There was trauma in my childhood starting with relentless bullying, including children throwing…

Dec 22, 2024

Hello, Post-Traumatic Growth

Dec 22, 2024

In the Garden

My mother’s favorite hymn was “In the Garden,” and my husband’s favorite place to be is in the garden. Every spring he goes wild ordering…

Dec 22, 2024

In the Garden

Dec 22, 2024

Janet Coburn

Janet Coburn

Author of Bipolar Me and Bipolar Us, Janet Coburn is a writer, editor, and blogger at butidigress.blog and bipolarme.blog.

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