Your Neighborhood Professional Deviant

Welcome to Saturday, which is Mental Health day here in Blogtown. From now on I'd like to do weekly posts concerning mental health. My own struggles, how to help others, how to help yourself.   Today, since it's our first post, I'd like to start off by giving you a tour of My mental health history.   At the age of 4, I was diagnosed with Clinical Depression, Anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The therapy and the medications had begun. This was before the ADHD craze, so someone so young being medicated wasn't a common sight. Great, I was a freak already. Or at least that was My mentality by the time I hit Junior High.   To add to the issue I already had, I was also diagnosed with chronic insomnia at age 4. Lack of proper sleep doesn't really help poor mental health.   My depression never led to the point of wanting to die. For that I am thankful.   I was unfortunate enough to have a possibly schizophrenic step mother who was chums with My ...

I love to yammer on and on about beauty and bath products. You haven't noticed? That's a mighty big rock you live under! Did you have to take out a mortgage on it? But yeah, I have an addiction to things like soap, makeup, lotion, and nail polish.  There are worse addictions out there. Like meth. And reality television.  Because if my obsessions, I do get a lot of folks asking about My list of All Time Faves. This would be a HUGE list. But I've decided to compile a small list of some that are at the top of said list.  It's also getting close to Christmas and My birthday so... I guess this blog post could be one of those Two Bird killing stones that you hear so much about.  Ready?   Onward!   First item that I adore is something that I also miss. Glam'Eyes mascara by Rimmel has to be the best mascara I have ever used. Ever. Proverbial hands are proverbially down! I curse the Makeup Gods for discontinuing it. I wept into My Cheerios for weeks ...