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5 star Book Review for “Nobody Nowhere” by Donna Williams
A huge thank you to Donna Williams for this book!, May 16, 2012 I have read this book three times. The first time I grabbed it to read, along with “Somebody Somewhere,” because I had worked with...
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5 star Book Review for “The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome” by Tony...
A Must-Read for all therapists and special ed teachers!,April 27, 2012 The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome (Paperback) Tony Attwood is the patron saint of “Aspies” and this book holds true to his...
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Traits of Females with Asperger’s by Samantha Craft
(Click http://www.independentauthornetwork.com/ellen-stockdale-wolfe.html for information on, and to purchase my Bipolar/Asperger’s memoir.) Filed under: Asperger's & Autism Tagged: Asperger's...
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Psych Meds, September Mind
September sunlight dances on drying leaves, sparkling like diamonds against an azure sky. The plants of summer are dying. Flowers that have given such joy all summer long are now spurned by us as...
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Mist of Memory
Thanksgiving has come and gone, leaving behind a tumultuous mix of unearthed feelings and memories. Memories of family gatherings meld in my mind with a mixed sense of loss and relief. I miss my Mom...
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Aspie Empathy
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster. By...
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“For the Truth Shall Set Ye Free”
I first remember things going wrong at age 5. I am standing in the corner of the bedroom with my mother beside my brother’s crib. She is telling me I am cold and selfish, like my father’s mother whom...
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Mania Free-flow
This is the mind in mania, a sampling of the free-flow of racing thoughts and rhyming words that occur. On first glance, the meaning may seem random but in the context of the memoir, themes of...
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“The Club”
It is Friday night. Ten thirty and I still have not eaten. I walk into the kitchen, take out a can of soup and dump the contents into a pot. I walk into the bathroom, open the medicine cabinet and...
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“Couldn’t Look Away”– Book review by Alistair McHarg of “Eye-locks and Other...
I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone interested in psychological exploration – from clinicians to self-diagnosticians to concerned family members to lovers of extraordinary tales well told....
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Supposed Indifference in Asperger’s
I climbed down from the tangled branches of my thoughts to greet you but it was too late you were gone. Don’t give up on me I love you can’t you see but there is such difficulty all because I am...
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Dark Clouds Overhead
Things have spiraled out of control. I am following far too many blogs and comments and finding it hard to keep up with all the new posts I want to read. I am on too many animal rights,...
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Going Cold Turkey
Doctors don’t tell you of the evils of prescription drugs, in this case, the Benzodiazepines. Nor do they tell you how very addictive some of them are. The one I have been taking to help me through...
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Interview with Slade Suiter of Authenticity Radio on Being Bipolar and...
“http://www.spreaker.com/embed/player/standard?autoplay=false&episode_id=3642270″Filed under: Asperger's & Autism, Asperger's and Love, Bipolar Disorder, Interviews Tagged: Asperger's...
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5 star Book Review for “The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome” by Tony...
A Must-Read for all therapists and special ed teachers!,April 27, 2012 The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome (Paperback) Tony Attwood is the patron saint of “Aspies” and this book holds true to his...
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Eye-Contact and Animal Healers
As someone with Asperger’s who spent much of my life avoiding eye contact until I was properly medicated, I still feel uncomfortable with eye contact in human interaction. Yet I actively seek out eye...
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Rapid Cycling
Patterns of the microcosm echoed in the macrocosm vibrating thoughts no meditation lots of frustration can’t calm down do the Hong Sau Yogananda method the only hope in this mind doing 120 mph in a 35...
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Afraid of Love
Bipolar 1, OCD, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. These were the labels awarded me when a major breakdown at age 28 literally catapulted me into therapy. Later came yet another label, Asperger’s...
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Review of Eye-locks and Other Fearsome Things: Learning to Love as a Bipolar...
stockdalewolfe:Kitt O’Malley over at Kittomalley.com, so generously reviewed my book on being Bipolar and Aspie and the fight for sanity and love, in a post on her blog. Kitt, a psychotherapist and...
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Confessions of an Agoraphobic
I will do almost anything to stay at home. Granted I have a few chronic illnesses that keep me in but it is mental illness that is the real challenge. Mental illnesses, plural, and phobias, to be more...
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