More Halloween Recipes & Games

I know it’s getting close, but for any of you still looking for more recipes and/or games for Halloween, I hope you enjoy!

Halloween Recipes, Fun for kids

I thought that some of you with kids might enjoy this.

Healthy Breakfast Smoothie Recipes~ YUMMY!

I have to admit, smoothies at breakfast aren’t my thing, BUT I LOVE smoothies any other time. Smoothies are a great way to get all of your fruits and actually there are some good smoothies with vegetables too.

Smoothies are great when you are in your 2 wk time and nothing sounds good, nothing seems to hit the spot. I also find that when I have a migraine it’s because of my nutrition being knocked loopy.

My kids love smoothies too and what better way to get them to eat healthy. I use them for their afternoon snack when they get home from school. When their friends are over after school and I give them some they think it’s a real treat. Sad but true, most kids grab junk for snack and if you make something good for them, they will eat it.

You know the saying, “If you build it they will come.”  Well, “if you make it they will eat it.” :)

I hope you enjoy the recipes and look for more to come!

Stef

Click the link below for the Healthy Breakfast Smoothie mini e-book. You will need Adobe Reader to open it. If you don’t have Adobe Reader it’s free to download, though most of you probably already have it.

http://documents.scribd.com/docs/1lov17j0v2muryo9so78.pdf

Suicide or PMDD Suicide, is there a difference?

This is a very close subject to me, not because I have actually tried to commit suicide, but a close friend of mine did, and succeeded.

This is a touchy subject for some, but because I am ‘all out there’ with the things I write and that’s what makes this site so much different than most, and mostly more helpful, please keep some things in mind.

Whatever your feelings or thoughts are on suicide or on what I write regarding this post, please feel free to comment, I sincerely hope you will.  All I ask is that you comment with respect the way I have always done with all of you. I want to continue writing openly and freely and hope everyone will feel free to continue commenting open and freely.

Okay, enough of all that…

Someone I grew up with from grade school thru high school and continued staying in touch thru college felt as though she could no longer go on and ended her life. She was a single mom, had a daughter, had family around, still in touch with the little girl’s Dad.

Some would say this was the most selfish act that she could ever commit. She left her daughter without a Mother and constant questions for the rest of her life. She left family to answer questions that could have been prevented. Family and friends will forever be the one’s wiping that little girls eyes when she is sad and helping her get thru this unfortunate situation.

I can’t say one way or another how I feel about the final act. I can truly say that I don’t feel as though I could ever commit it. I will follow that with, there have been times during my 2 wk time, on numerous occasions, that the thought of leaving my children without their Mommy is the only thing that kept me hanging on. That and the support of my husband telling me it’s just the PMDD talking and I will feel better soon.

My friend had been up and down as far back as I can remember, I would say at least back to Middle School. During High School she spoke with doctors and was put on medication that never helped and they never had a diagnosis for her.

In College and after she spoke with Doctor after Doctor and was hospitalized numerous times for different episodes and suicide attempts. Once again, she had been on numerous medications, been given different diagnosis, you name it and still could not overcome the sadness and emptiness that overcame her.

I said earlier that I couldn’t say one way or another what I thought about her final act because I do find it incredibly selfish in regards to her daughter and her family and what they are left with. On the other hand, living with PMDD for as many years as I have and going thru 2 wks of every month with the sort of ups and downs that I deal with, I can’t imagine how heavy the burden must have felt on her to live with it daily and never feeling as though she had a break from it.

Truly, I don’t know how she did it for so many years. She desperately didn’t want to be a sad person. She wanted to be happy. I remember this all the way back to talks we had in high school just sitting outside and talking.

There are so many things that anger and sadden me about the whole thing. First, nobody could help. All the doctors and medicine in the world and noone could help. It just seems insane to me that out of everyone she saw, noone succeeded.

Second, so many tests run and nothing could show exactly what was going on or did noone go far enough to help. Was medication always given and doctors not push far enough thru the process? What all happened?

Maybe I am wrong. I know for me personally I have had to push more than one Doctor to get tests I wanted done.  I whole-heartedly believe that we as individuals have to force a lot of Doctors to push forward. We can’t allow them to stop at the prescription pad. We must do research and we must push for more research to be done. We must spread the word openly without being afraid of how other’s might react.

I just feel as though in addition to all of our pushing Doctors must step forward and continue with their learning as well. Am I asking for too much? Is it too much to expect individuals to do their job with all of their abilities and some?

I feel like I am rambling now.

From the title of this post, Suicide or PMDD Suicide, I am getting off track.

A lot of Women that live with PMDD feel suicidal thoughts and emotions, and unfortunately some have these feelings every month.

Don’t get me wrong, Suicide IS Suicide. The outcome is the same. I just believe that Suicide from life problems or depression and suicide because PMDD has taken over once again for the hundredth month in a row should be discussed separately. Don’t you?

Suicidal thoughts or follow thrus during PMDD are NOT the cause of something has gone wrong in life. You have been mistreated, abused, life has hit you in the gut, etc…Literally, something triggers when your 2 wk time hits you. It IS like a light switch and does switch off and on as fast as a light switch. You are so down, so quickly without any idea why. You go from being out on a field trip with your kids to feeling deep down that you are the worst parent, worst wife, worst person in the world. Your chest hurts because the thoughts of being so incapable of taking care of your family the way you believe a Mommy should is so overwhelming.

You can’t even see what was going on 30 min before this hit more less all the days that you are a great and involved Mommy and taking care of everyone and everything. It’s as though it has dropped out of your head, you can’t find those thoughts.

Sounds insane?

Live It! Better yet, Live it month in and month out! This is PMDD at it’s worst.

Really I am not even sure why this subject came up for me to talk about right now. I am in my good week. I feel as though there are people out there, including Doctors, that believe PMDD isn’t as bad as it seems. It’s actually something else, but we gave it a prettier name. You know the rest.

I am just tired of it! I want more done about it. It is so real.

Sadly, Women are having to take Mood Stabilizers, Anti-Depressants, have Hysterectomys, Hormonal therapy, Work daily on their eating habits and exercise even when completely over-the-top exhausted…Does that not seem REAL enough.

Taking medication brings on it’s own set of problems, lower sex drives, weight gain, and so much more…Yet, for a lot of us it’s the only thing we can do to function enough to continue living and not taking a more permanent action.

If that’s not real enough, I just don’t know what is!

PLEASE READ: Would you be interested???

I am wanting to start a TwitterMomsPMDD group just to make it easy for all of us with PMDD or those living with someone that has PMDD, or any other Mental Illness, can do quick check-ins.

Sometimes going to the PMDD blog isn’t possible, or you just want to say hi or vent to those that can understand what is going on.

In order to start a group I have to have 10 people join, for free of course, within 7 days and introduce themselves. I will start up any other necessary conversations for now, unless you have something to say, and that would be awesome!

The Woman that started TwitterMoms doesn’t want groups started and nothing done with them, I can totally respect that.

If you want to see what TwitterMoms looks like just check out TwitterMoms.com .

If you are interested in going and getting joined for the PMDD group, go here.

I have sent her an email letting her know I am interested in the trial run, I think it would be great for all of us and it doesn’t take any time to just have a place to stop, when you find time or need too.

I am waiting on the link back from her.

Stef

Next Page »