Back to the Future… Sort Of

          No, this isn’t as good as the movie — but it’s just as odd. Like I warned you, I jump around. Yesterday, I mentioned that I was the “good kid,” and in a lot of ways, that just made me more naive. Why? Because my view of the world was …

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Out of the castle…

Out of the castle for a few days in sunny and warm Costa Rica while the snow and cold surround the castle. As many of you (the 2-3 people) that read this know, I lost my husband to suicide this summer. I wanted to take time to talk about mental health and the extremes that …

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Whip-it good…

It's been a minute, and in the past two years, both nursie poo and the castle have changed. Let's catch up.   We were sorta of, kinda coming out of the more significant part of the pandemic. The pandemic screwed up life as we know it in ways, we are only now seeing two years later. …

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I think I can say I am honestly shocked…

As many of you know, I work psych as a medicine person, not a psych person (believe me, you need to differentiate in psych). I have spent a great deal of time hearing that the patient has a somatic disorder in my career. Somatic symptom disorder involves a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as …

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