Posted on December 1, 2008
Filed Under Journal, Recovery, Updates for the web site!, mental illness |
Hey everyone I know it has been a while since I have been dedicating my time to the web site and I know it has mostly to do with mental illness. Though I am in the mix right now of working a recovery program for my addiction to drugs and I was just wondering if my readers would like to have anything else added to the website for you to keep your interest in coming back to my website.
I’m not saying that I am going to quit talking about mental illness but what I am saying is I think that this web site needs to do some expanding and I am thinking the best way to expand my web site is to hear from the readers themselves and to let me know what they would like to see more of on my web site.
So at this point what I am saying is that I want you to be the voice of the site as well and I would love to hear any suggestions that you may have to improve my web site and I would love to hear how this web site has affected you either positively or negatively.
I will take every comment into complete consideration and like I said above I want the reader to be the one to make or break this web site and I think that you as a reader know what you want out of this web site and I know as myself I want to make some changes to this site. Like I said there is going to still be a lot of talk about mental illness and how it affects my life and how it could potentially affect your life and how I can make this life of mine with my mental illness a better life for myself and how I would like to expand onto this web site.
Also some changes are coming soon like when you get your email that a post has been made it is going to say something different than checkout my new post for my web site at mental illness. I also am in the process of thinking of a new title for the web site and if there is any of you out there that have any ideas about what I should change it to please let me know so I can get your ideas about what you would like it to say.
My goal here is to bring in newer readers and to bring in more traffic to my site and to get my statistics back up to to where I think they should be. I also want to know that what I write in my posts help people through some of there own problems with mental illnesses and also there problems with drug addictions.
So please express yourself in anyway possible and let me know what you think you would like to hear more about on here and I am also going to add a lot more information about co-occurring diseases like people that deal with drug addiction and mental illness.
I also know that it has been a while since I have gotten a lot of posts coming in but that was due to the summer and the nice weather outside and a lot of family and personal problems going on in my life. I also am going to get my wife Laura to start writing more about how life it like dealing with me and my life with mental illness and drug dependence. But she is really busy going to school full time so she will try to post as much as she can when she has the free time.
So like I said please share your thoughts and feelings about the site thus far and how you feel about it and what changes you would like to see to make it better and more informative for you and others that you share this site with.
So in ending you can expect many changes in the web site and even maybe the look of the site may change too but not sure of that quite yet and I would really like to know what you think I should title the web sites top name and if you think it should change or just stay the same. I also will read every recommendation that you comment to me and I will also make a personal promise that I will respond to every comment that I get and what my personal feelings are of your comments so that I will leave no stone unturned.
So please help me out by sharing your thoughts and opinions about this site and how it has helped you this far and what you would like to see coming into the new look and new information that is talked about on the site.
So please share this site with others that you know and if you would please respond as soon as possible and I am going to try to get at least one to two posts done a week from now on and hopefully it will help you because over the summer I have has a lot of things happen to me in my life and life experiences that I have been through and I have got a lot to share about it with you and how some of the experiences have changed my life and how they have helped me as well.
So if you would holler at me as soon as possible and I will holler back at you usually within the next 24 hours of your comment that you leave me.
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I like having the spouse’s perspective. I know it is very difficult for my husband to deal with my illness, but I think he has been very supportive for the most part. I think he would be happier living somewhere else, but heck, so would I. ha ha
If there are others like me who avoided dealing with their mental illness, I would like to know why, and what led them to doing so. For me, I finally had no choice. I was walking around the college campus and something happened that made me realize that I was not well. I went to see my doctor, and he convinced me that I would address any other medical condition, so why not this? But religion had good intentions in my life, indirectly teaching that to be a good christian, I would not struggle with such things (ironically this is contrary to the Bible) and I was always hearing how I was to live victoriously, free, prospering, etc…I believed for so long that if I would do what I could, improve my life, do all the right things, God would heal me of it or things would just fall into place. I didn’t want to admit I was mentally ill, because I had already spend so much of my life trying to “overcome” various things. Finally I realized that it wasn’t going away. I became disillusioned with my faith, not so much in God but with the religious culture that promotes this American dream version of faith. Its hard if you are religious, because not only do you deal with the stigma in the Church, it’s outside the church as well. Now, I guess you could say I am on the fringes of the culture.
I would also like to read how medications changed people’s lives. I am fortunate in that I’ve had minor side effects, and feel as if I have had a brain transplant. Only now and then do I slide down the slippery slope.
Thank you very much, and Happy new year to you and your wife!