Clary
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This is, of course, not my real name. I was looking for an original user name for an account elsewhere. Got tired of seeing numbers. So I pulled out a favorite book of mine, Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs, and started digging. I thought "Clary" sounded interesting. So I've started using it as a pen-name both in my things that I put on the internet, and using it as my nom de plume when I submit for publication the stories that I write. I've been treated for mental illness since I was fourteen. Unfortunately my doctors didn't recognize it for bipolar disorder until I was twenty-three. I was more-or-less stable for three years, long enough to finish college. Then my husband and I decided to move to the East Coast. Bad move. The doctors didn't think I had BPD II or anything remotely similar. I won't inflict a description of that time period on total strangers. Suffice it to say, that I survived with severe memory loss due to the electro-convulsive treatments I underwent dozens of times. Made it back to my home state of Washington, though, and here I sit now. Started treatment for BPD again. I haven't seen the inside of a hospital for psychiatric reasons in more than three years now. May 2, 2005 was the day I got out of the last psych unit the last time. I do have a very good mental health practitioner who I see. We have a great working relationship, and she respects my judgment, so that it ends up that I am the one in control of regulating my doses of psychoactive meds. I do have some questions about BPD II, or more specifically the side effects of medication taken to control it, but I actually would like to think, since I live a very high-functioning life, that I might possibly be able to offer support and advice if sought out. |
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