Ed's Tourette's

Thanks to the people who reached out after last Thursday's post about depression. I always hesitate to talk about that sort of stuff because I hate to think people are worried about me when I know it's something I'll rebound from after a certain amount of time. As per the usual course of events, I'm again right as rain and looking for ways to proactively prevent another episode. I guess we'll wait and see what that looks like. It's unfortunate that discussing my mental health is such a hard thing for me to do. If I have a cold, I'm like, "Hey, I have a cold and it sucks. Don't touch what I touch and don't get to close to me and everything will be just fine." For some reason, it's a lot harder to say, "Hey, I have Tourette Syndrome and some other associated conditions that affect my mood and sociability and a bunch of other things." The rub, as we all know, is that I bare no more personal responsibility for having a cold than

Today was a Bad Day. I'm not sure how TS-related all this is but I'm going to talk about it here since I know Tourette's and depression team up like the bully kids in "A Christmas Story". I've made and/or been forced into a few big changes over the last month. I got rid of my smart phone, as I've mentioned before. My wife and I decided to get our butts in shape, so we got an exercise bike I'm trying to ride five days a week. I'm also trying to make some pretty serious dietary changes since I have a kid and now I have to live forever. Finally, and worst, my shift got changed at work. We got pushed back an hour, so now I'm working till 7pm every night and not getting home till 7:30. I was in a great groove with the schedule I was in prior to the change. I could get home at 6:15, make dinner for everyone, and spend a good chunk of time with my son before we put him down at 8. Now all that has changed and it sucks. There's a bunch of work-rel

Oh hi! My recent hiatus was brought to you by how good it feels to be freed from expecting myself to write something interesting and meaningful twice a week every week. I've also been mostly absent from Twitter, since I recently made the technologically-regressive move from smart phone back to flip phone. For that part at least, I'm sorry. I know I've talked a lot on here about being part of a community, and I've left that community behind for the last few weeks. I'm going to try and find a happy medium between self-care and being there for people who've been there for me. It's been a big change going from checking my phone 200+ times a day to logging onto my laptop maybe twice a day just to check email and maybe Facebook and Twitter and the news and ESPN and Polygon and maybe just a few other sites real quick while I have a minute. Seriously though, ditching the smartphone has been nice, if a little disorienting. The first few days were a little rough, si