My ever-growing friend suggested I clarify that 1) he is part of my ghost writer, 2) using numbered lists in GRE essays should really be okay, but from my experience, it is ill advised, and 3) when I mentioned speaking privately in a post from a few years ago, I was referring to being his sponsor about a sex addiction.

He says he recovered because his depression abated, and so he could more readily reject encounters or interactions that were self-sabotaging as well as stave off relapses. He says a few of his cohort have also improved psychologically because his recovery has enabled him to assist others.

He wanted me to mention that this blog was started partly because of a reaction to television programs and other media that depicted people with mental health conditions, and yet did not successfully communicate any understanding about what causes lead to or results occur from these psychological phenomenons known as “crazy people.”

“Insanity is a societal construct.” — Sara Bernick Mishra (to her ever-growing friend in the Spring of 2013)

My ever-growing friend says: “Why not deconstruct it?”