1000 Page Views: Time to
Reflect
Breathe has now received nearly 1000 page views in just
about a month and a half since I wrote my first article. I am very pleased with
its success and would like to thank all of my readers for this. If you are new
to reading my blog I'm glad you found it and hope that you find it both
informative and relevant.
I would like to share with all of you a little about how I
came about the idea of writing a recovery blog. This idea actually evolved from
an idea that I had to start up a fitness club for those with mental illness.
The idea of that would be to have people who were dealing with mental illness
support each other with maintaining a healthy lifestyle. I might still attempt
to make this happen one day. I thought that having a newsletter for the fitness
club would be a great idea as well. The idea of the newsletter ended up being a
blog.
The process of creating this blog is a little challenging. I
do a fair amount of research to make my articles relevant and informative. I
would like to continue adding articles to Breathe a couple times a week and am
realizing, to do this I must make a shift in the content. I am going to begin
to write more of my personal process both from my past and current
circumstances. It will begin to take the shape of being an on-line journal to
some extent.
My hopes in creating this blog are mostly and ideally to
impact the lives of my readers. I myself had an "ah ha" moment in my
recovery, educating myself on schizophrenia on the internet. I had been
delusional for quite a long time. I struggled to accept that much of my life as
I remembered it was not at all as it was perceived. I would periodically try to
do a little research on things I thought I had accomplished in life and
consistently found nothing that would confirm my perceptions. I chalked it up
to government conspiracy but it also cast just a little doubt in to my psyche.
So when I went on-line and saw and read of other people's experiences with
delusion, and symptoms of mental illness I quickly accepted my own personal
state of mind. Getting to the point of willingness to accept the
"memories" I had as delusions was a struggle. I reached a tipping
point in my recovery and educating myself using the internet made a substantial
difference in my ability to move forward. Maybe my blog will similarly impact
another person's life. It might not have as profound an effect as I experienced
but may be helpful to some people any way.
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