I am in the backyard examining the bright orange and yellow underbelly of the heart rot mushroom, chicken of the woods, growing at the center of the cherry blossom that, very shortly, will no longer watch over us outside the bedroom window as we sleep when it hits me that nearly everything I experience, I experience alone. This comes on the heels of a week spent rotating between my office, where I’m teaching an online class; the bathroom, where I spend more time than I would

Hi all! It’s Jay. I do a link roundup (almost) every Friday. If you encounter a link you think I might want to share, please tweet it at me or Chronically Lit. Since my diagnosis, I’ve talked to so many women about the ways illness can complicate relationships. I’ve heard stories of breakups, of cheating, of detachment and callousness. It’s not just anecdotal — research shows that being a woman with a serious illness increases your chances of “partner abandonment,” and that t

Hi all! It’s Jay. I do a link roundup (almost) every Friday. If you encounter a link you think I might want to share, please tweet it at me or Chronically Lit. In June, he told The New York Times that he was “learning how to not be on meds” and that he’d taken medication only once in the previous week. In an October meeting with Donald Trump, [Kanye] West told the president that his bipolar disorder had been a misdiagnosis. Now, in apparently quitting his psychiatric medicati