Life with Bonus Features

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor in 15 minutes or fewer. Today we're talking about how to talk about your bonus features with the people who matter most to you--particularly if they are...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor in 15 minutes or fewer."It's not you; it's me" may work for ending a casual dating relationship, but you need something with more structure when you...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor in 15 minutes or fewer. Last week we discussed how to go about starting therapy and what you can expect from the first sessions. Today, we're tackling an...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor in 15 minutes or fewer. Today we're diving into the often intimidating field of starting therapy as Part 1 in a three-part series. How do you choose a...

Welcome to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor in 15 minutes or fewer. This week we're talking about work: whether you're a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick-maker, chances are, you have a job. Most of us...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor. Last week we talked about all the responsibilities you may (or may not) have as a result of your bonus features. But what about the perks? Surely there...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness in fifteen minutes or fewer. Today we're talking about our responsibilities as individuals with bonus features. Do we have any? What are they? What keeps us from fulfilling...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor in fifteen minutes or fewer. Full disclosure: I'm a very annoying person. I do a lot of very annoying things, and a lot of that is as a result of my bonus...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor. Today we're talking about the intersections of our bonus features: what happens when more than one illness (or more than one part of the same illness)...

Welcome back to Life with Bonus Features, helping you navigate mental illness with grace and humor. One of my favorite strategies for dealing with my bonus features is laughing about them, and that includes laughing at all the bizarre things I've done...