Sara James
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My Passion: LIFE
To be perfectly honest I have not been a member long enough to have a wide scoping range of followers. I have added a story here and there but I am sure I have not been using my membership to its full capacity. I guess, in truth, I have lacked inspiration. My passions have been kicked to the curb for a season. I have been struggling with the stigma tied to a mental illness. Bipolar to be exact. I have wrestled with my own demons. I have felt so buried by my own head space, one that screams at me and beats me to a bloody pulp. I am by nature a very passionate person. An extremist might be a fitting word and considering that is the definition of bipolar I suppose it fits well. I have been on that pendulum for the last 11 yrs. swinging from one extreme to another like a monkey at the zoo. Trapped behind the bars of my mind, holding the rope for dear life and swinging back and forth. It has made me quite sick at times(both physically and mentally).
By Sara James3 years ago in Motivation
Living Outside the Box of Regret and Shame
I guess for me my life could be compiled of many embarrassing moments. Embarrassing and regretful may be a mild expression for the feelings I have felt. For the last 10+ years I have lived with a Bipolar 1 diagnosis. I have revealed a plethora of characters that I didn’t even know I had in me. At one point I was so crazy I thought I was God and Satan simultaneously. I guess you never know your potential fully until you have gone through such a phase. I have been hopeless. I have been broken but the truth is that is the place where healing can come in. I choose to release the negative and let go of all the emotional drama that this drama queen has conducted.
By Sara James3 years ago in Psyche
The Sunset Surprise
It turns out I have been living a lie. But I am getting ahead of myself. My name is Danielle Jones. I live in a small town in upstate New York. Some would call it a postcard town. Nothing really ever happens here. Usually you’re born here and you die here. No one usually ever leaves. Everyone knows everyone else’s business. Secrets are something that exists in books or more for the bigger towns and cities. I had none...or so I thought. I grew up thinking my life was an open book. Nothing extraordinary. Good upper middle class family, only child you know the typical boring suburbia.
By Sara James3 years ago in Families