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What’s Your Top 10? Coping Tools For Stressful Times

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments anxiety, bipolar disorder, coping tools, coronavirus, COVID19, depression, mental health, stress

Living through this pandemic has taught me I need to be intentional about identifying and expanding my coping mechanisms. Have you made a list of your Top 10?

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Trying To Have a Social Life When You Have a Chronic Illness

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments chronic illness, disability, Friends, social life, The Irishman

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3 Ways To Help Loved Ones With Parkinson’s Disease

April 10, 2018April 12, 2018 Rebecca Evans 0 Comments causes, how to support, loved ones, medications, neurological disorder, Parkinson's disease, symptoms, treatments

Three Ways to Help Loved Ones With Parkinson’s Disease While it’s well-known and accepted that Parkinson’s disease is an incredibly

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3 Lessons on Loving a Sick Person From a 4-Year Old

September 14, 2017September 15, 2017 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments

(Repost) Last weekend I was exhausted. After a 40-hr work week, it was hard to find my mojo. Lying in

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Where Is Your “Happy Place”?

August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments

I have been feeling much better the past three weeks. In my last blog post, “The Loneliness of Chronic Illnesses

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The Loneliness of Living with Chronic Illnesses & Pain

August 2, 2017November 27, 2017 JessicaGimeno 3 Comments autoimmune, bipolar, chronic, chronic illness, depression, disability, fatigue, how to help sick friend, illness, Jessica Gimeno, laughter, loneliness, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, otitis media, pain, PCOS

(UPDATE: The TV show I discuss in paragraph 2 aired its finale since I wrote this. The writers resolved the

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What’s Happening Now! An Update on Me, Fashionably ill

October 28, 2016December 5, 2016 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments Asian American, bipolar, depression, disability, Disability Intersectionality Summit, Fashionably ill, how to get stuff done when you are depressed, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, TEDx Talk, updates, What's Happening Now

I haven’t been able to post as frequently on Fashionably ill ® as I would like to lately and there

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My Interview with Voices for Change Is Up

September 18, 2016 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments bipolar, chronic illness, depression, disability, fatigue, Joe, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, podcast, radio, Rebecca Lombardo, Shane Shultz, stigma, Voices for Change

Yesterday, you may have heard my interview on Sirius XM. If not, here’s a link to listen to my interview

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Pictures From Saved By The Max: Celebrating the End of Physical Therapy

June 30, 2016July 1, 2016 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment CJ, diner, fashion, Jessica Gimeno, Kelly Kapowski, pictures, Saved by the Bell, Saved by the Max, Snack Attack

My niece CJ and I recently went to Saved by the Max—the Saved by the Bell-inspired pop up diner in

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NBC News Interviews Me

June 6, 2016June 26, 2016 JessicaGimeno 2 Comments Asian American, chronic pain, Fashionably ill, mental health, Monica Luhar, NBC News

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

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