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		<title>Intellectual Rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote earlier, the trend is up in terms of moods. Of course, that doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m up every day. In fact, the past two days I&#8217;ve been down a bit. Having a sleep schedule is really helpful for this. The fact that I cannot wake up before 9am is a good sign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1053&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trending Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh boy, it&#8217;s coming, my secondary cycle is kicking in and it&#8217;s on the rise. I think I&#8217;ve written about this before, but I have a primary cycle, which is several days long and can be lengthened by some antipsychotics like abilify, and then I have a secondary cycle on top of all of that. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1047&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Quite Normal, Never Will Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the basic message that my psychiatrist imparted when I went to see her on wednesday. Well, that an there is no real normal to be shooting for. I agree with her, there isn&#8217;t a normal baseline for human emotional fluctuations. And with that I&#8217;ve basically accepted that what I&#8217;m going through is about as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1044&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Nietzschean Philosophy Goes A Long Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in a trough for the last two days and I&#8217;m starting to come out of it. Today I have nothing to do except for laundry, so I took the down time as a good place to start some research for my book. One of the primary interests that I have for this book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1042&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, I&#8217;ll Do That Tomorrow&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That phrase is becoming the bane of my existence. It&#8217;s too easy to say to myself and pass off onto tomorrow whatever task I need to get done today. I keep saying it to myself and I cannot stop it for the life of me. From what I can tell, there are two parts to it, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anxious Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m back on the klonopin train again, this time for the generalized anxiety that I seem to get after having a pretty bad depression. It&#8217;s not a high dose like the time I was on it after my psychotic episode, this is just .5mg here and there as needed. And this morning I really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1038&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diving Right into Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not depressed any more, actually I&#8217;m feeling a little more invigorated than usual. I&#8217;ve happened across a small volume about ethical issues in suicide. I&#8217;m excited to read it and have always had a mild interest in existentialism&#8217;s relationship to suicide. One of my favorite pieces of existential philosophy is the Myth of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Little Things That Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new psychologist has be working on social rhythm therapy. I haven&#8217;t learned that much about it yet, so I&#8217;m rather naive considering the depth of this strategy. However, I&#8217;ve learned a little bit. The basic idea is to set up and ebb and flow for every day. I should get up every day at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation, Or Lack There Of</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Claims</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it should be obvious by the fits and starts that this blog has taken, I&#8217;m having trouble with motivation. The strange thing about this is that it is not a typical depressive lack of motivation. In depression, I&#8217;ve noticed that there seems to be a disconnect between wanting something and actually doing it. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Something Good Out of Mental Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Claims</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been through a lot this past year, and part of me wants to just move on. Yet, there is a part of me that wants to grow from the experiences and incorporate them into my life. There is a wealth of experience to learn from, and having a philosophical bent, I&#8217;d like to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesclaims.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13497036&amp;post=1028&amp;subd=jamesclaims&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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