The Electric Circus Blog

T-E-C’s meat wagon is not the healthiest – we have Diabetes, COPD, Pulmonary Hypertension, Sleep Apnea, Asthma…. the list goes on. The last few...

So, a 48-hour vacation and a hotel stay 40ish miles from home – Welcome to the 2024 T-E-C Offsite! We take a journal, a...

Saoirse here. I’m taking today off work because, yeah, I’m kind of a mess. I’ll get into that in another blog post. I want...

Hi, I’m Saoirse, and I’m a Workaholic. At this time in my life, that’s totally on me. But I can’t help but feel it’s...

It’s 2:30 in the morning, and I can’t sleep. So, I watched YouTube videos for a while and somehow went down the rabbit hole...

Janet here with Saoirse close by.  A few days ago I wrote a “Do we have a disorder” blog entry.  I was feeling really...

I have half an hour before I’m scheduled to play Magic The Gathering with friends online, so here goes a quick shot blog entry…...

Apologies for the clickbait title, but even though he died two years ago this week, in a way, I *did* kill him Monday night...

One of the biggest “tells” of who in T-E-C is out front is what music we listen to. There is crossover in our tastes,...

Getting off Zyprexa and onto Vraylar has been life-changing. Our mood and ability to think is much better. It also seems Zyprexa can cause...

I’ve fallen behind on keeping up with all the cafe blog postings from members, but I promise I’ll read them at some point. It...

Today was originally supposed to be the day I returned to work. However, we still haven’t stabilized on meds yet. The switch from Zyprexa...

Merry I’m-Glad-I’m-Not-A-Turkey Day for those of you also in the US. Personally, I’m not a big fan of the holidays. From mid-November until New...

When Rabbi Zusha was on his deathbed, his students found him in uncontrollable tears. They tried to comfort him by telling him that he...

I know I’m dealing with depression when I’m too depressed to play video games. I downloaded Baldur’s Gate III the other day, but haven’t...

As of Friday the 13th, I’m taking a Leave of Absence from work. The official story is that I’m dealing with anxiety, which is...

Our system is run by an elected ruling council.  Traditionally that’s been made of three of us, but we’re trying something new this year,...

About three years ago, there was a significant shift in our system. I became the primary host. For the 25 years or so before...

This may not make sense to non-T-E-C members, but the blog is one of our journals, and this kind of thing gets posted in...

We had a funeral for our cat Ellie tonight in therapy. TherapyGuru did an excellent job. He got several of us to come out...