Apparently when all of your strengths lie in focusing on others, your health suffers. Crazy!

This is not about avoiding the moment, or STUFFING THE MOMENT DOWN and pretending it doesn’t exist. More like a tiny little mental escape from the day-to-day.

I felt like a tourist in Paris… because I WAS a tourist in Paris… and I hated it.

The dust has settled on two years and I FEEL WEIRD!

The 15 books that distracted me from the burnout of the past two years!

Making a case to embrace your ADHD-ridden self, or friend, or child, or sibling, or parent. We’re virtually SUPER HUMANS! And are also likely RIDDLED WITH ANXIETY (the two are closely connected) so if you don’t support us, we’ll likely spiral out of control and show up at your door and clean your whole house while singing songs from Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston.

WHAT THE F IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD?

This summer was supposed to be LIT.

Full of wine, sugary cocktails, history, fish, chips, popcorn, shopping, sunrises, and depression!

People value thick thighs on a chicken, then they can value thick thighs on me.

I’m not sober, I’m not even sure I want to be, but I’m struggling to find a healthy relationship with an abusive substance that causes me nothing but mental health problems. Which, truthfully, pretty much sums up all of my relationships!

Stuck with nothing to do and nowhere to go, I turned to God. Just kidding. I decided to meditate.

I realized recently that all of my “wonderful little idiosyncrasies” are a complete laundry list of depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and I am a living, breathing, somehow functioning product of mental illness.