Two years have passed since what I just read and I see another check-in a year ago. In November of 2014 I was on the front end of a manic episode that eventually encompassed two seasons. After a few months with inadequate sleep, beginning mid-October, I spent another couple of months becoming fully functional again.
In October of 2015 I was hospitalized based on another manic episode that had lasted about a week when a harsh reality broke the sleep spell and created full cognizance. By that time, it was too late. I remained hospitalized against my will and gave in to pharmaceutical experimentation in order to be released. That entire experience took almost 2 months of my life with recovery, and continues to haunt me to some extent.
In the coming year I may be more involved than I would like with a law suit against the physicians who kept me against my will, based on Medicaid for insurance and no show of external support. Although I would prefer to draw forward with no ties to that period of trauma, it is important to me to do whatever is within my power to stop the experimentation of the pharmaceutical industry on the human population. If my story can help that ongoing oppression be exposed, then I am willing to continue that conversation.
Today I am more healthy than I've been in years and have more hope for the future than I can remember holding in a decade or more. I am focused on graduate school and continuing to support the entertainment industry as called. I am applying my experience, energy and time to getting several performers, teachers and revolutionaries traveling the eastern seaboard and look to more global action by 2018.
I am inspired by the strangest news of the past year, our recent election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. It is a time to stay involved in the political landscape and I am more inspired than ever to work for change. I hope I can learn more about writing policy reform bills in the coming year and will be applying for the opportunity to volunteer in DC in some capacity. I encourage you to go within and ask what you can do to make your own personal contribution to the political landscape. We need all hands on deck the next two years and a mass educational movement about mid-terms and state politics.
I am off to an interview for graduate school. I am seeking a Master of Arts in Writing, so perhaps you will see me becoming more present with the blogosphere. Please check out more words at www.xinaphiles.blogspot.com and remember to collect and share your own thoughts. We are all in this together. Roll in and Rock on.
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