A Splintered Mind

The Monthly Mind is something I’ve been wanting to do for some time, but always procrastinated. Now with my book coming out, I want to have a monthly newsletter for people who discovered me through my book who don’t do Twitter, Facebook, or blogs. You can subscribe with the form below. I don’t sell addresses, and I won’t spam you. This will be an extra blog post, if you will, that I’ll send out each month with tips and suggestions for dealing with ADHD, depression, suicide, and anxiety. Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep my cheekiness intact. Don’t want to go and take myself too seriously now, do I? Unfortunately, the service I use now does include ads in the mailing. It’s not optimal, I admit. In fact, I wasn’t aware there were ads, so my apologies for those who have been receiving the blog updates through Feedblitz since 2007. I’ll be either paying Feedblitz to remove the ads, or I’ll be using a new service. Regurgita...

Setbacks are ugly things that spring out at you when you're least expecting them. That makes them hard to plan for and avoid. After all, they wouldn't be setbacks if we skillfully navigated around them, would they? One of the downsides of me choosing to self-publish is that I have to do most of the publishing work by myself. If I had sent my manuscript off to a publisher, for instance, my book wouldn't have missed deadlines since I wasn't the one holding it back. I am sure that as I become more used to self-publishing, things that seem like mountains will be reduced in size with practice. For now, however, my book is delayed. I'm not sure which is more discouraging, that I'm not published yet, or that I've been ticking so much. I think it's the ticking that weighs heaviest on my mind. I don't write about it much here because there isn't much I can do to avoid it. Unlike ADHD, ticking just sidelines me without the humorous anecdotes. When I tell y...