Emma kaplan

Addicted to my therapist
2016-08-26 17:40:28 (UTC)

Bipolar recovery

I asked my boyfriend if my writing was more serious like Kay Redfield Jamison (professor who writes about bipolar disorder in a memoir) or funny like David sedaris and Lena Dunham. He said my writing was more serious. He said I needed to tell a joke to be funny. Then he tries to give an example by saying s joke that is just not my style.

What I have in common with Jamison and several other writers is that I do have a mental illness. I went to the psych hospital twice ten years ago for bipolar disorder. I finished college and went to grad school for occupational therapy. I had an internship at the psych hospital where I was a patient and no one recognized me.

Then I worked as an OT in a low functioning psych hospital where the patients had chronic mental illness usually homeless or there because not guilty by reason of insanity. I got much healthier in my own personal life in therapy and in a love addiction 12 step program. I got healthy enough to have a boyfriend.

Then I switched to working in a high functioning psych hospital for patients like I was who were there voluntarily and some are highly educated. My therapy in my personal life got even better. I have a great boyfriend and my self care is good. I am growing well. And now I am switching to social work school so I can have my own private practice.

I wanted to write like David sedaris, but I guess I'll take anything I can get.




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