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  • Author: elisabethel

    I'm a single mother of two young men with strong opinions and quick wit. One of the two - I'll call him Martin here - has been diagnosed with bipolar I and Aspergers. His younger brother - I'll be calling him Pete - has anxiety and depression. I also suffer from anxiety and depression, though much less so with medication. This blog is about family life with mental illness.
  • ghosts of her disorders

    Posted by elisabethel on June 8, 2019

    Erin hadn’t expected that Maria would come looking for her. Her college roommate had been working across campus for years, but Erin had thought that they’d finally reached a sort of détente where they didn’t …

    eating disorders, fiction
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  • overseas

    Posted by elisabethel on April 13, 2019

    I’ve been out of the country on vacation for a couple of weeks, and it’s a bit of a shock to the system to return home and have to take up where I left off. …

    eating disorders
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  • Spike (M&P #5)

    Posted by elisabethel on March 22, 2019March 22, 2019

    One night after dinner, while Erin was washing the dishes, David came into the kitchen with a couple of computer disks in his hand. “Erin, I told Gabe that I would get these to him …

    fiction
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  • demi-memi: a word on what I’m up to

    Posted by elisabethel on March 20, 2019

    Dear Reader, Since I’ve just sort of plunged into uploading chapters of the draft of my novel, I thought I’d take one moment here and talk about what I think my reader and I might …

    writing
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  • valentine’s (m & p 4)

    Posted by elisabethel on March 19, 2019March 20, 2019

    Driving with Martin and Pete 4 Erin bought a very provocative pair of panties for Valentine’s Day. There was lace, but not a lot of it, and a couple of ribbons. She’d decided that she …

    fiction
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  • Driving with Martin and Pete 3

    Posted by elisabethel on March 18, 2019March 17, 2019

    Note: I thought I’d better stop with the Roman numeral chapter headings or we’d soon be heading into the big math challenge…. Elisabeth Meeting Gabe (1993) The first time Erin saw Gabe, she was looking …

    fiction
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  • Driving with Martin and Pete II

    Posted by elisabethel on March 16, 2019

    What I’d really like to hear here and in the next chapter is whether you feel like the shifts in time are too extreme or whether they work for you. If they’re confusing, please let …

    fiction
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  • Driving with Martin and Pete I

    Posted by elisabethel on March 14, 2019March 14, 2019

    This is the first chapter of my novel about a single mom raising two boys, one with bipolar and one with anxiety. I want the novel to show how mental health issues often aren’t limited …

    fiction
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  • transitions

    Posted by elisabethel on February 24, 2019March 17, 2019

    One of the wonderful things about raising exceptional children is that you don’t know what sorts of challenges you’re going to face until you come right up to them. I read somewhere when Martin was …

    parenting
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  • The Holiday Letter, 2018

    Posted by elisabethel on December 29, 2018December 29, 2018

    the letter that I can't send

    holidays
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