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Illness, Regret, & Dreams

February 8, 2015November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment A Friend's Betrayal, autoimmune, Beverly Hills 90210, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Brian Austin Green, chronic illness, depression, diagnosis, fatigue, fibro, illness, Lifetime Movies, lost dreams, lupus, mental health, mistakes, Muscular Dystrophy, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, regret, stress, what could have been

A few weeks ago, I found myself watching a 90s Lifetime movie. Don’t judge me! I was in a Beverly

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Mindfulness: Making Time for Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment

February 4, 2015February 9, 2015 JessicaGimeno 4 Comments autoimmune, bipolar, chronic illness, depression, fatigue, fibromyalgia, General Hospital, isolation, Jessica Gimeno, Kimberly McCullough, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, Robin Scorpio, stress

Reality Bites was on TV the other night. I haven’t seen it since 1994. At one point, Wynona Ryder’s character, Leilana,

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What Chronic Fatigue Feels Like

January 30, 2015November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment autoimmune, bipolar, chronic fatigue, depression, Facebook, fatigue, fibro, Huntingtons, invisible illness, Jessica Gimeno, Kelly Kapowski, lupus, mental health, mental health stigma, Mr. Belding, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, Which Saved By the Bell Character Are You?

What is chronic fatigue? My mom asked me this weekend what it feels like, and I had a hard time

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Resilience: My Family’s Autoimmune/Cancer/Bipolar Journey as Remembered Through Four Pacquiao Fights (from The Huffington Post)

January 12, 2015November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments asthma, autoimmune, bipolar, bipolar disorder, Boxing, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, chronic illness, colon cancer, depression, fatigue, Jessica Gimeno, Manny Pacquiao, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, Pacquiao, pain, PCOS, psoriasis, Resilience, Rocky, The Huffington Post

Over the weekend, I had my second Huffington Post article published. You can read it here. I’m very excited about this

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6 Ideas: How To Get Stuff Done When You’re Depressed

January 6, 2015March 25, 2018 JessicaGimeno 17 Comments asthma, bipolar 2, bipolar disorder, bipolar mood charts, depression, endorphins, Exercise, fatigue, mental health, mental illness, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, physical pain, psoriasis, working with chronic illness

I’ve been depressed the past few days. There are many difficult aspects to depression and one of them is

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Lessons on Companionship, Compassion, & Community From The Twilight Zone

January 2, 2015November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 5 Comments Anne Serling, Arlen Schumer, asthma, autoimmune, bipolar, chronic illness, depression, disability, fatigue, Hugh A.D. Spencer, I Am The Night - Color Me Black, Jessica Gimeno, Martin Grams, Myasthenia Gravis, New Year's Eve, New Year's Marathon, Nightmare As a Child, pain, PCOS, psoriasis, Rod Serling, Sy Fy, The Hitchhiker, The Twilight Zone, Time Enough At Last, TZ, Where Is Everybody?, Zoner

It can be lonely being a fan of The Twilight Zone. When I tell friends that I’m a fan, I

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Victim Blaming Happens to Sick People Too

December 14, 2014November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 9 Comments asthma, autoimmune, Barbara Ehrenreich, bipolar, cancer, Chris Algieri, chronic illness, depression, disability, Facebook, fatigue, Jessica Gimeno, Lebron James, loneliness, Manny Pacquiao, mental health, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, rape culture, suicide, taking positive thinking to extremes, victim blaming

I recently saw an article about the twenty dumbest things said on a popular sports show. I was discussing this with

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5 Lessons I Learned from Boxing & Pacquiao on Resilience & Surviving Illness

November 22, 2014November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 1 Comment Algieri, asthma, autoimmune, bipolar, Boxing, Brandon Rios, cancer, chronic illness, De La Hoya, depression, fatigue, Freddie Roach, Juan Manuel Marquez, Myasthenia Gravis, Pacquiao, pain, Parkinson's, PCOS, psoriasis, Resilience, Rocky, Timothy Bradley

I’m really excited for tonight’s Paperview Fight, Pacquiao vs. Algieri. People are always surprised to find out that I’m

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The Truth: Why Don’t Chronically Ill People Speak Up More Often?

November 18, 2014November 20, 2014 JessicaGimeno 2 Comments advocacy, autoimmune, bipolar, chronic illness, depression, fatigue, Jessica Gimeno, mental health stigma, Muscular Dystrophy, Myasthenia Gravis, pain, PCOS, professional patient, red tape, tired, WEGO

When people ask me how I’m feeling and I say “I’m tired,” they assume I’m talking about the chronic fatigue

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Please Help My Friend, Ms. Wheelchair Illinois, Pearl Gannon

November 2, 2014November 10, 2015 JessicaGimeno 0 Comments Charcot-Marie-Tooth, chronic illness, fatigue, mental health, Ms Wheelchair Illinois, pain, Pearl Gannon, people with disabilities, PWD, Robin Williams, wheelchair

Some of you may have read my interview with Ms. Wheelchair Illinois, Pearl Gannon. Pearl is a great friend of mine

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