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Vacation Pictures from My Surgery

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted on Fashionably ill ®. BUT that doesn’t mean things weren’t happening the

Hello Fashionably ill readers: I know I haven’t written anything new in a couple weeks–that’s because I have been recovering from

In my last post, Asian American Mental Health: Confusing Doing Well with Feeling Well, I described my life with bipolar

I was a junior in college. It was the third consecutive day that I spent in bed. I was on

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week I have doctors appointments and physical therapy. I’m in a hurry to

Coming out of the mental illness closet (or sadly, in some cases being outed) is very hard. I surveyed Fashionably

March 30 is World Bipolar Day. Even though I was diagnosed at 18-years old, I have lived with bipolar disorder

People with myasthenia gravis (MG, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease) sometimes refer to ourselves as “snowflakes” because symptoms vary person to

I recently celebrated my birthday. A few days before my big day, I got a bad ear infection (yes, another

Popular mental health advocate, Rebecca Lombardo, wrote a book called, It’s Not Your Journey: A Memoir. Lombardo’s book actually began