Days of Our Bipolar Lives

 

If you've been tuning in recently, you may have noticed some posts with recipes. This is because I am going to be adding a new page up top shortly devoted to recipes and cooking tips. What does cooking have to do with bipolar disorder? you may ask. For me, dinner time is one of the most stressful parts of my day. From deciding what I have on hand to cook to making sure nothing burns to entertaining a rather rambunctious child during the whole process, I sometimes just want to give up and cry. Sometimes I do. Sometimes there are anger issues that result in multiple stabbings to a tuna can because the can opener wouldn't work. Just pretend I didn't tell you that last part, okay?  ;) 

The truth is, evenings are hard on any tired adult who has either worked outside of the home or wrestled with children all day.  If you are struggling with depression, anxiety, or other symptoms of illness, then that tacks on even more stress to the day. You may decide to order pizza, run to the nearest fast food drive-thru, or not eat at all, and none of those choices are very healthy. So I'm going to be sharing a few of my tried and true recipes that help me keep meal time as stress-free as possible. These recipes are easy enough for beginner cooks, frugal enough for life on a budget, and are at least healthier than a Big Mac and fries.

I am working on some non-food-related articles as well, but I ask for your patience as I am currently spending a lot of good quality time with my family. I do hope you will continue to read at www.bipolarly.com and if you have not done so already, please "like" me at https://www.facebook.com/Bipolarly. As always, take care of yourself and remember our motto:

“Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are.”

 ~Theodore Roosevelt