Dear Dena, by Dawnee Fuentes
Dena, I want the whole world to hurt because I’m hurting. It doesn’t seem fair that they get to go on. I want them to know that a piece of me died. ...
Category: This Really Happened
‘I Wish I Could Share Her With the World’ by Dawnee Fuentes
Our relationship got off to a rocky start. She was six and I was one when she fashioned a rope out of blankets and tied to it to my crib, trying to get me to cl...
Life Expectancy
I was 13, on my grandparents’ couch in June of 1987, when it first struck me that I wouldn’t live to see my 27th birthday. I had been reading a romance no...
…and this is what bipolar cycling is like…
I have a confession, I’m messed up to the nth at the moment and I am refusing to contact my psychiatrist to adjust my meds. That means I’m hurting m...
Pain is powerful
A few years ago I began developing a lot of crappy symptoms that snowballed into inflammation issues: fibromyalgia (I call it miscellaneous drawer illnes...
Anxiety, Not Just for Public Speakers Anymore.
At one time it was unthinkable to mention, or unmanly to admit, that people had problems with anxiety. I have news for y’all: anxiety is the brain’s...
How to Save a Life
I recently got an email from someone who read one of my reviews on Amazon. The writer had gone to All The Things Inbetween, found out that I’m a superhero...
Late to a Funeral
I have a lot of baggage. Yeah I know, I shouldn’t brag about all the crap that has made me this awesome, but it’s all truth; I’ve enjoyed a lo...
What’s My Name?
I grew up an angry, broken girl who hated herself and everyone else. After many years of horror and heartbreak, I lost it all. Rather, I gave it all in. I enter...
Bipolar Chronicles – This Really Happened: The Voices in My Head; Mine and Yours.
You hear people trying to curse their own children to have kids who will be like they were growing up all the time. Maybe this Chronicle won’t be solely a...