Right off the bat this post will be deleted later on tonight or early tomorrow. I have been blogging on Untreatable Online for almost a year (January 12 is the anniversary date) and though I am pretty darn open about my mental health side I do not offer much on the other parts of my personality or who I really am once you clear up the mental health issues. So for a very brief time I am going to lift up the veil a bit. This is more for my long term readers then anyone else. Alright lets go
Facts about Me
- I used the internet handle trg247 on various health forums and what have you for the last number of years. So what does trg247 stand for? It is my initials.
- I grew up in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and moved to Sudbury Ontario when I was almost seventeen.
- I went to North Bay Ontario’s Canadore College to get my diploma in Social Service Worker. I graduated with a 3.99 GPA, if you want a percentage it was in the high nineties and believe it or not it was the English class that brought the average down. Two separate 79% in English were my lowest marks (if you have been following this blog for a while this is probably not a surprise as my grammar and sentence structure tends to be terrible). My first placement was at a long term care facility in North Bay which lasted a couple of weeks but I stayed on as a volunteer for a few months afterwords final mark was 97%. The second placement was also in North Bay at a youth correctional facility where I spent from January to May and ended up with a mark over 98% something like 104/105. If I could change one thing it would be that I never left North Bay and would have stayed at the facility
- The rest of my Social Work career (at least to this point) has been in Sudbury Ontario where I currently live. I do not really care for the city but my son is here so that is where I shall remain.
- I tend to read a lot and watch a lot of movies. I need a noise in the background when I am working or writing. When I am sleeping I always have a fan going even when it is minus thirty outside for it drowns out all the background noise and tends to make it easier to fall asleep
- I have been driving the same car for the last decade a 1997 Mazda Protege which is beginning to show the effects of a number of long winters
- The picture used for untreatable online profile is me but it was taken about five years ago then I manipulated it with some photo editor to give it the look it has now.
- I tend to be rather shy and quiet which tends to be the first couple of words others use to describe me. I am out of practice when it comes to speaking so I am probably even more so then I was in the past. I hate telephones.
- My confidence level really depends on the subject. Regarding mental health and possible treatments it is pretty high but when it comes to relationships and how I see myself it is usually not very good. I still deal with what the responsible adults in my life told me when I was a kid
Well there is a pretty good outline of who I really am when you take untreatable away. Like I said earlier this post will be deleted in the next 24 hours. Take care
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You have a great blog. Thank you and keep up the good work.
-DMR
Thank you for sharing parts of yourself that were previously unknown. I’ve often wondered who you were underneath the untreatableonline person. You have a great blog.
Thank you very much for sharing. It feels good to get to know you better. Brave step!!
Thanks for lifting the veil a bit. A lot of what you write resonates loudly, and I appreciate your comments. Happy New Year – I hope it’s better for all of us.
~Amanda
Thank you everyone for the kind words and support. I am having second thoughts about removing this post so maybe it will stick around for awhile. Take care
I can understand why you would edit out some of the more identifyable information, but I can’t see why you would want to delete it.
I have written to you before, I am a lawyer, a graduate of Queens, worked as a lawyer now a publisher for 18 years. Also suffer from Bipolar, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure,low thyroid, high blood pressure, it ia all absolutely true. I continue to work successfully every day!
However, I do not feel keeping things secret is better than letting it be known. I have told my son from the age of 10 of my bipolar illness, so that should he inherit it, he will be able to deal with the problems.
Mental illness will only remain a shameful illness as long as we refuse to accept it ourselves as a normal illness like any other.
Why hide, stand up and be counted, and demand equal treatment to any other illness.
A Lancaster
Good to meet more of you
I keep the fan on for the white noise at night all year too. When it’s cold, I just point it away from the bed.
It’s sad to me that you are thinking about discontinuing the blog. I found it today for the first time through another link. I am a mature student at Canador in a related program to yours and I found your insight and honesty VERY helpful. Blogging is a difficult commitment but looks like you are helping many folks out there. Count me in as a vot to stay UP! K
It’s very brave to reveal things about who you are. There is a lot of stigma, especially concerning BPD, but for any mental illness. I encourage you to keep your post.
There seems to be some confusion here as I never had any intentions of shutting Untreatable Online down but delete the one post but that does not matter anymore. I am glad that this blog is able to reach out and help people which is the main reason why I do it. Hopefully with my new approach it will be able to help more people. Take care
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