Note added 12/10/06: This is a poem I wrote in the late summer of 1996, based on some thoughts I had about Jesus on the cross. The thought behind the poem is that when God separated himself from Jesus, Jesus, already tired and in a lot of physical pain, probably wondered if he had been …
I wrote this letter a couple of months after my husband took me to the emergency room and I was diagnosed as having a manic episode and admitted. It was my first experience with mania and I didn’t have a psychiatrist; I did not know the doctors who treated me. Although my stay was only …
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Note added 12/10/06: this poem depicts my experience when I got mentally ill in 1996. It begins with my progression from ‘normal’ Christian thinking into the distorted way a manic person thinks. I’ve also written about that day here. Jesus is my Lord and Savior He died for my sins He loves me The Bible …
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