Lynda Wise

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Currently I am a Mental Health Consumer
Location Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Introduction Dec 2013: I am 47-1/2, single, never married, no kids, and without a foreseeable, identifiable career path. After 14 years of debilitating struggle, I am now receiving CPP-D & AISH; I have received 15 mos of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy c/o AHS DBT, & am looking forward to full time DBT in 2014. Here's to LIFE!
Interests Regaining & maintaining an optimum level of daily functioning (routine self-care, nutrition, exercise) despite severe & permanent mental handicaps & challenges.
Favorite Movies One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Out of Africa, Awakenings (De Niro & Robin Williams), Patch Adams, The Notebook, Stuart Little.
Favorite Music KT Tunstall, AC/DC, Pink Floyd. Classical: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach etc. Opera (Turandot etc) Big Band Music & Marching Band Music. Boogie Woogie Music! Endless tastes in music.
Favorite Books BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT; Codependent No More, Melody Beattie. Beyond Codependency & Getting Better All the Time, Melody Beattie. Disarming the Narcissist, Wendy Behary. Stephen Covey's books. DBT Cognitive Therapy books by Marsha Linehan.