Stories and Songs
Stories and Songs
Mind Together
What are two words that start with ch and end with ces? Both have seven letters. One you make and one you take. Choices and Chances. We have many choices in life. It is up to us to make each one. We may feel that we have no choices left; yet we must exercise our power to choose. We can choose our attitude. And our…
I know a firefighter (somewhere in Canada) that attended a traumatic accident scene. He ended up needing some hospital time for his mind. He went away for a while into a distant hospital so that his own community did not know that he was in. It is hard to enter a psychiatric facility. What will people say? This was not too many…
When I was seventeen my brother and father died nine days apart. I did not get the help, for grief, that I needed at the time. I learned to pretend that everything was okay. It wasn’t. Without the proper tools, I turned to other substances to medicate my mind and emotions. Three years later I entered a detox centre cold turkey. My…
During my twenties, I was hospitalized many times for mental illness. It tended to be in times of crises. I tried to pretend that everything was all right yet it grew out of my control. Mental illness is a serious foe that requires many remedies and solutions. It took me a long time to learn techniques to prevent my roughest times of…