If you are stuck inside today put on a pair of shorts and a summer blouse do push ups lift weights dance to the music listen to meditation tapes and call or email your therapist or doctor if you need to. Stay well and take precautions if you are sick, keep a pain diary … Continue reading
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ABOUT Suicide Available
My book on suicide, PTSD, Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder Type is now available on amazon I am pleased to present my second book, Last Miracle for Maria: A Story of Suicide, PTSD, and Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder Type by Sherry Standing Joiner, February 6, 2020. I wrote my memoir/biography of my mother, Maria, who was a … Continue reading
Documentary AIDS
There is no cure for Aids and it took my brother too soon in September sixteen nineteen ninety within a year of mom’s Death anniversary My brother, Doug, was a tender soul. He was nine years my younger. Before AIDS defeated his body, he took up knitting and knitted baby hats for premature babies. … Continue reading
ARTWORK First Lady
Painting the First Lady by Sherry Joiner What a gift to the world, Michelle Obama’s book Becoming is to everyone. I am so fond of the First Lady, Michelle Obama that I painted a portrait of her. In admiration, here is my portrait.
ABOUT Gun Safety
I’m in so much pain and heartbroken for the people and children who perished and were injured in El Paso and Ohio I feel like crawling into a deep dark cave and hiding and never coming out again. My love goes out to the family members who have lost their loved ones also. Why … Continue reading
ABOUT Class of 67
Our Roseburg High School class of sixty seven seventieth birthday party was a joyful healing event Saturday afternoon we met at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Portland, Oregon and celebrated. We had survived together for seventy years. It seems almost unbelievable. Everyone looked so young. It was great to hear where others had been, … Continue reading
Documentary Schizoaffective
Went to Dr. Ward T Smiths retirement party last night It was a time to mingle, laugh, and cry. I was Dr. Ward T. Smith’s client for twenty-six years. He was compassionate, caring, and skilled in helping with a very technical and difficult disease, Schizoaffective Disorder. I will miss his intelligence, sense of humor … Continue reading
ABOUT My Psychiatrist
Celebrating Dr. Smiths birthday On my last visit with Dr. Ward T. Smith, my psychiatrist of 26 years, I celebrated his birthday with him. I will miss him. He helped me to work with my schizoaffective disorder diligently and faithfully and he is one of the reasons why I am stable today.
ARTWORK
Healing these day by doing some artwork in pastels Self-portrait in pastels by Sherry M Joiner
Knee Surgery
Recuperating from partial knee replacement surgery with Bipolar Schizoaffective Disorder Celebrated my 29th wedding anniversary and 41 years of togetherness with my husband, Joe at the Cheesecake Factory in Portland tonight. It is my first social outing since two weeks ago just before I had knee replacement surgery. I am using a cane to … Continue reading
