As I sit here working on TDP documents to share with the community a phrase keeps repeating in my mind.  “Right now in your life today” is a phrase Anna and I decided to make a large part of a document we are getting ready to share with all of you soon.  I’ve been thinking about what this means to me today.

We all know in our minds that we are constantly changing and growing.  We hear people say it all the time.  This morning as I write, I realize that I rarely take the time to let that idea resonate inside myself and recognize the changes within myself that have taken place over time, both short and long term. (more…)

Everyone working with TDP has a history many of you are familiar with, either by reading Anna’s book, Madness, Mania, and Miracles or by keeping up with the website to this point.  I am thrilled to have joined Anna and Ann Marie to further the work The Depression Project is meant to follow.

I met Anna in January of 2000, one of the first people I met when my husband and I moved to the Austin area.  We quickly became friends and soon learned that we shared a common thread – Anna with her personal trials with bipolar and anxiety, and me as the daughter of a woman diagnosed as bipolar with anxiety and schizophrenic tendencies.  (more…)