Welcome all!

Ok, so most blogs have an initial post about the writer and the topics they will be most commonly writing about. Well the first part is simple enough. My name is Heather. The second part will be a bit more difficult because I simply plan to write some of the stuff zooming through my head down so I can put it to rest and get on with my day. Topics currently running in the brain are quite varied from work stuff to different types of dogs. Ahh, the perks of being bipolar, I can have everything and yet nothing to talk about!

Ok so how about mental health? As some of you may know or then again maybe not because I might not know you, I have Bipolar. I was diagnosed a couple years ago after a severe breakdown. I mean, I thought everyone could sleep for only 45 minutes a day! It's funny now but it wasn't then, I was literally sleeping for about and hour and a half at time...For months. I began to think that I was supposed to check stores security systems by "pretending" to take stuff. And I mean random stuff, fruit, toilet paper, socks, just to name a few things. I started driving off to random places because I didn't want to be at home (that's a whole other story!) . I would sleep where ever I parked. I walked through parks and rec areas at all hours of the night. Oh, I also worked full time and had an additional part time job as well! So I was as shocked as you are that the doctors labeled me bipolar!

For the most part I can say I have bipolar, not I am bipolar. There are days that I feel I am sick, but they are slowly getting less and less. I have an awesome network of family, friends, and an amazing girlfriend, who are willing to ask me questions and aren't terrified by my answers. I really wouldn't be here without them. Especially a certain one who answered a phone call and drove through the whole of Phoenix (a story for another time.), you know who you are and I am forever grateful even if I wasn't at first.

Oh, and I'm also an Air Force veteran with 2 deployments, a juvenile detention officer (can't tell too many of those stories out of privacy for the kids), a cat mom, and a dog mom! I have a feeling there will be plenty of things to talk about! But until later, y'all have a great life!