Notice--I'm Going To Be Away

I am going to be away for the next two weeks....but I have just made arrangements so that I should have at least SOME access to the internet. Please do continue to post, and I will try to keep up with my publishing of those posts. Newcomers, please check out the posting below entitled "The Launching of This Blog." You will find some exciting comments, and I encourage you all to join in, and partake in peer supporting! I think you will find it to be good for you too! Onward (as a friend of mine always says)!

Welcome to Newcomers

I'd like to welcome any newcomers who are viewing this website/blog for the first time. Please feel free to post some of your concerns and issues...your thoughts and ideas....just click on the "Comments" link below and type away!

Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Please bear with me as I get used to this blog medium. Apparently, people have been trying to post, and the site has not let them. I don't know if there is a 5 comment limit per blog entry or if there is some other problem. If anyone knows anything about the Blogspot format, please fill me in. In the meantime, feel free to try to post underneath this blog entry and see if it works. Thank you for letting me know about the technical difficulties.

The Launching of this Blog

Hello to you all....and welcome. By creating this blog, I hope to create a safe spot where people with mental health conditions will feel free to come and share with others. As you might know all too well, we all go through our ups and downs, our good days and our bad days, and our steps forward and our steps back. I am here for you as you go through these trials and tribulations, and I think you will find that others will be here for you too. Please feel free to publish, morning, noon, and night...but be aware that I have this blog on a setting where I leaf through comments, just to keep out people who might have some bad intentions (such as making fun of people with mental illnesses)...so it might take a few hours before your comments get published.

I want to let you know that I come from a school of thought where I have learned that recovery from mental illness IS possible. "Recovery" is not meant in the classic sense of the word--meaning "cured"--but is meant in the sense that people with mental illness are able to live meaningful, fulfilling lives out in the community, able to function without their mental illness impairing them on a daily basis. This is a state that is not easy to achieve, but one that is well worth striving for. I am currently in the midst of my personal journey toward recovery, and am learning different things about myself every day that help me to take steps further and further in a positive direction. Even making this blog is one of those steps. Reaching out to others and socializing--even online--is a great way to help yourself achieve recovery. I encourage you all to share various steps that you may encounter along your own personal journey to recovery--what works and what doesn't, what helps and what hinders. It can even just start with what makes you get out of bed in the morning! I am looking forward to hearing from you and listening to what you have to say. Each person's journey is important, and we all have a lot to contribute to each others' recovery journeys. Please comment below--let me know who you are, and what's on your mind.