Cliff Wise

People have a lot of questions about Anxiety, Depression and General Mental Health. They are asking, "What is it that I have, and why?" THERE IS NO ONE PLACE TO FIND ANSWERS. For us there are three stages in our lives: 1st--You decide you need help.2nd--Scene one--You look for help. Most of us find out we are on our own. Scene two--Someone refers you to a professional that can start the help process.3rd--Scene one--You give up. Scene two--You get diagnosed and your disorders get treated. Scene one should never happen but it does all the time. I want to fix this. This book doesn't have all the answers - but it's a start. These are my answers to real questions asked by people like you on Quora.com.

I had nothing to do with writing this book. There are little aliens, probably teenagers, driving around in my brain, moving thoughts and ideas around. They are having a great time. I write to get things in my mind out in the open, so I can take a look at them. I started by writing down my dreams, right after I woke up. That was a bad idea. My sanity was immediately in question, not that it ever wasn't. I was horrified, to be honest. Over time, my daily routine has developed into one of waking up, brushing my teeth, stumbling around, finding something to put on, drinking a full glass of water, playing something that was stuck in my head on the guitar, having my first sip of coffee and then writing my blurb. This book is all the blurbs, one minute outpourings of the matter in my brain steamed and pressed. I don't understand them, so I don't expect anyone else to. They are written through the lens of anxiety and depression with a bit of abandonment (the left behind kind), real anger, self-dislike (downgraded from self-loathing), DBT, guilt for being alive, yada, yada, and maybe a touch of humor, without which the human race would be a more plodding, corrupt herd than it is, uneasy with the existence of itself and others.