Pills Skills and Will

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>My psychologist Dr. J. Mark Pratt says “What you do most is what you do best.” Certainly full-time paid employment takes up most of my time and I am so grateful for that. Coming in close second however is mental health treatment. Appointments with psychiatrists/psychologists mental health support groups obtaining required blood work from the lab filling pharmacy prescriptions going to church reading literature and praying/meditating. Also common is doing volunteer work helping friends and family with tasks and listening to them when they are troubled. These activities give me positive thoughts that I am contributing to society and help keep me away from the negativity that has been a hallmark of my mental illness.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><br></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>Thus it has become a life that I truly believe is one worth living. In the early stages of recovery (the late 1990s) I did not share this view. But I survived those tumultuous days and have now entered into an expansive place where peace even joy is a common experience.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><br></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Grotesque Lightsans-serif;color:black;'>The psychiatric and psychological treatments that have made this possible cost my mom Gwen a lot of money. Although I have been able to remove this burden from her more recently. It occurred to me that if I could write a book delineating the various aspects of my treatment program I could share these helpful concepts with others virtually for free. That is the spirit in which this book is published and I hope you can utilize it for increased mental health and well-being!</span></p>