Then and now

Things I could handle just fine in January 2010:

– being unemployed

– asking my husband for a divorce

– moving in with my parents

– giving up my kitchen

– getting dressed

Things I could not handle just fine in January 2011:

– working

– a friendly phone call from said husband

– my apartment

– cooking chicken

– getting dressed

Thank God my shrink OK’ed the restart of Abilify, otherwise I’d probably be cowering half-naked under the bedsheets, spatula in one hand and a cookbook in the other, trying to figure out what to do with that pound and a half of chicken breast in the fridge.

OK, maybe I still don’t know what to do with that pound and a half of chicken breast, but at least I’m not weeping about it.