The Intriguing Life of Jennifer Lisette Thomas

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been quite busy with my new classes and such.

My support group's site is experiencing massive difficulties. We're not absolutely sure what happened yet, but posts are disappearing, reappearing, and everything in between. Hopefully this will get resolved quickly.

I'm working on getting more traffic to this old gal, so I'm joining up (a bit late) with a 31 Days challenge that supposed to help improve the blog and bring traffic and such.

I'm officially a group leader at the Bipolar Support Group. I'm very happy about it, even though I did have someone testing me out on my very first day. I wonder if I can put this leadership position on any of my grad school applications? Hm.

I had two articles about bipolar approved by Associated Content. I agreed to the very small amount of money, and now I'm just waiting (anxiously) for them to publish.

I'm still "fasting" with the Abilify. It's starting to worry me, but I do wonder if my weight has changed.

I've been very productive, but I'm still having to tell myself to eat. I blame both on the Abilify.

My hallucinations are still pretty much full force. I was just laughing at something one of them said about half an hour ago in the kitchen. I started writing a piece (I admit I started writing it during the middle of my microbiology lecture class) about my hallucinations because I'm tired of the stigma. I don't think that hallucinations should automatically be associated with insanity and drowning children in bathtubs. So, I'm writing a piece that expresses my feelings on that matter, while explaining that some of us have "boring" hallucinations that don't tell you to take over the world or anything dramatic.

I admit that all of this writing has benefited me. Publishing it on Associated Content and MDJunction also gives me so hope that it will reach someone. I've received quite a bit of good feedback that simply boosts this hope.