Furious Seasons

September 25, 2008

Third Anniversary

Today is the 3rd Anniversary of this blog. I am pretty much staggered and humbled by where this site has gotten: 1,783 posts and 12,250 comments going into today. Also, sometime today this site will pass 30,000 hits (or visits, technically) for the month, which bests the previous best month record of May (where I beat my 25,000 hits for one month sometime this year goal) with several days left in this month. I need a new goal since I have pretty much surpassed readership goals.

A lot of blogs and websites don't make it more than a year much less three. In the beginning, I thought I'd really have to struggle to find mental health news worth writing about. I was wrong: these days, there's more than I can contend with.

I thank all of you many readers for helping make all of this happen.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at September 25, 2008 12:05 AM

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Thank YOU Philip, for providing a blog worth reading, that many of us check first thing in the morning and last thing before we go to sleep at night.

For goals, more cowbell- um, kitties? J/k.

Posted by: susan at September 24, 2008 11:54 PM

Gosh Susan!
Why did you arrived first and said what I wanted to say? :)
Than YOU Philip.
I'm totally addicted and you give me strength, reliable data and the right amount of furious to keep on undignified but keep on trying to raise awareness on mental health issues.
Yes, it's the first thing I check when I wake up and the last thing I do when I end my working time.
Of course many visits during the day and sometimes in the middle of the night.

Posted by: Ana at September 25, 2008 06:45 AM

congrats Philip...

you are making an impact...and your readership proves that...

Posted by: Gianna at September 25, 2008 08:50 AM

LOL Ana,

I wouldn't have arrived in the middle of the night normally. I actually had a bad dream about our favorite Seattle reporter!

Which is weird because I hardly ever dream of people, and when I do dream of handsome men, there is always a can of whipped cream in it... j/k.

Posted by: susan at September 25, 2008 09:30 AM

Susan,
We're becoming a kind of cheerleader. :)
Bad dream? :o)
E-mail me!
:)
I wake up in the middle of the night because my biological clock is out of order due to Effexor and Seroquel.
I rather take a nap in the middle of the day because this way I can have a good sleep without Seroquel effect. I don't get to sleep at night.
I faint because of Seroquel's effects.
The wonderful drug paradise! LOL
I only repent never experiencing cocaine, LSD or any other of these drugs that makes us happy instantly.
What a waste being drugged by psychiatry.
We don't even get a kick of these drugs!

Posted by: Ana at September 25, 2008 09:59 AM

I'm a thorn amongst roses, on this thread! Oh, well, congratulation, Philip.

Matt

Posted by: Matthew Holford at September 25, 2008 02:54 PM

~!~!~!Congratulations Philip!~!~!~!

If it wasn't for your blog, mine would not exist, and we all know that is a good thing, because I *tend* to comment a lot here. :) (sorry that still happens)

Can I have my permament couch in the forum re-upholstered?! haha

Posted by: Stephany at September 26, 2008 10:14 AM

Just wanted to say that your blog is awesome. I have bipolar and have been diagnosed with it for almost a decade but it went misdiagnosed for over 15 years before I got that diagnosis.

Had I known back then what I know now things could have been much different. It's great that there is so much information out there regarding bipolar. It helps us feel not quite so alone and it helps us find valuable information to help us cope, maintain, etc.

So thanks for helping keep us informed.

Posted by: Melissa at October 7, 2008 02:28 AM