Dorothy and dealing with depression - #Ballarat

How brave are you/we with yourself/ourselves?

In the video above, my blogging colleague Dorothy Krajewski describes her life with depression. Dorothy is a smart, savvy, well-educated Ballarat woman.  She is a mum who runs her own business.  She rounds up the bloggers of Ballarat to do clever and wonderful things. And yet ... and yet ... 

Dorothy left a destructive marriage and healed herself by blogging.  And now? And now she is not merely writing about it, she is speaking about it.  You can see her face and learn what a bad day means for Dorothy.  You can learn from her how to keep going --- getting the kids off to school, doing what has to be done, earning a living.  It is all there in her own words and on her face. 

Find out more about Dorothy and what she does:

A blog of her own

Dorothy K (her business blog) 

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and to meet some, but only a few of our #Ballarat bloggers

please go to Caz Filmer's blog, The Truth About Mummy

 

#BlessedAreTheCrazy - A Synchroblog event. Please join in.

For Advocates of social justice who blog, please consider this synchroblog which is happening NOW!  Details below.  If you wish, you can send your posts to advocacyballarat@gmail.com for publication here.

There is a synchroblog coming up. This is the facebook site which references it >>> http://goo.gl/xMzYBH The details below are copied from the site:

To commemorate the launch of Sarah Griffith Lund‘s new book — Blessed Are The Crazy: Breaking the Silence About Mental Illness, Family, and Church — and to participate in National Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 5-11), we invite you to join in a Synchroblog on mental illness, family, and church.

Break the silence by sharing your personal story of how you’ve been impacted by mental illness in your family and/or in your faith community.

NOTE: We are joining with another synchroblog for this event, so the posting date and instructions are a bit different. This is also coming up quickly!

First, publish your post by midnight on MONDAY, October 6th. Post the links in the comment section here as normal. We at the synchroblog will post all your links over at the Facebook event for the other group.

If you want, you may also use the hashtag ‪#‎BlessedAreTheCrazy‬ when you post your links to your blog posts on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Follow the hashtag:https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BlessedAreTheCrazy

Second, we will put up the full link list on Tuesday, October 7th for you to publish at the end on your blog post.

We hope you will participate and break the silence by sharing YOUR story!

Here is the Synchroblog post for this event:

http://synchroblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/october-synchroblog-announcement-mental-illness-awareness/