Working with dogs,hearing live music,gardening,hanging with friends, laying by a pool, making cards & other artwork, reading, walking in the woods. walking on the beach, sailing,taking pictures

Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Memento, Born Free, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Scarface, Ghandi, Remains Of The Day, The Hours,Slingblade,City of Angels,The Pianist, Shine,The Usual Suspects, Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead, Resovoir Dogs, Donny Brascoe,I Am Sam,Mask,The Green Mile,Forrest Gump, Smoke,

anything with good musicians, love live music best, of almost any kind, Dave Matthews Band, Talking Heads, Lyle Lovett, Shawn Colvin, Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, Van Morrison, The Beatles, Lucinda Williams, Meshell Ngdegeocello, Joan Armatrading, Peter Gabriel, Traffic, Soundgarden,Pat Metheny, Motown. the Blues, Funk, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Elvis Costello, Ray Lamontagne,Cowboy Junkies, Tom Waits

The I Ching,The Four Agreements,Darkness Visible,Touched by Fire, Pooh-Pooh and the Dragons, Babar,Guess How Much I Love You, anything by John Irving, May Sarton,Jumpra Lhariri,Amy Tan, Annie L. Proulx,Agatha Chistie,Tony Hillerman,Carlos Castenada, anything about dogs or wolves or animal behavoir, good books on mental disease

Hello, my name is Annie I'm 42 and I live in Danbury,Ct. My metal challenges are major depression and PTSD. I have been living with these challenges since the age of 3 but it wasn't until I was 17 that they truely became life interfearing. I am also a member of AA and have about 21 months sobriety. This is where I first heard of Joey's documentary and website.I have always fiercely believed that the stigma of mental disease needs to be destroyed.After seeing the film I came to believe that I don't have the luxury of anonimity or shame when it comes to participating in the fight agaist stigma.My story needs to be told with head held high and shame iradicated. This can be difficult and scarey.I have found however that in the telling of my story I free myself from my own self-stigmatization.Tend to end up feeing as helped as those with whom I have shared my story. The opputunity for sharing between peole that is opened up is precious. The other thing I am doing to combat stigma is training my own Psychiatric Service Dog. She will eventually be able to acompany me everywhere. So far she has already brought extra patience from others and has been a great icebreaker.My problem was that I had always wished for some kind of special magic wheelchair that would identify me as challenged. I have felt uncomfortable and like a fraud in my own body because my outsides have never matched my insides. This has lead to people making assumptions about me or having expectations of me that I can't meet. With my dog beside me I feel more real and "out of the closet".The whole Pschiatric Service Dog idea is very new so my dog and I have ALOT of work to do.I appriciate whomever has taken the time to get to know me and I wish you all the best and the strongest of health. Be Well, Annie. (My name means grace and I was under the impression that you were supposed to pick somethig mysterious for your screen name.Lol)