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White Flag in Current Events
Hello darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk to you again. It was good while it lasted. My mood disorders went on hiatus but they clocked in this morning. Their absence made it clear that it ...
D Deficient in Current Events
My NP doctor is treating me for a protein deficiency which plays a role in absorption, duh, but the more I look into it, the more it looks like it is something far simpler. Zinc. There are the ph...
Dilemma: I'm the Bad Guy in Current Events
Wake up in the morning feeling like P diddy I’m groggy, I just want to get to my coffee. That’s the vibe in the morning. The coffee is programmed to be ready for me when I wake up. On my way to i...
Nothing Burger in Current Events
I’m house-sitting for a friend until Sunday. Rodent-sitting, really. I have her car for the weekend which I’m looking forward to. It happened again. I know what this pattern is. Male-pattern bit...
Out of the Races and on to the Tracks in Current Events
I think I figured out why my mood disorders have not been an issue, not that I want to jinx it. There are a lot of factors but I think it’s mostly the sun. We are solar-powered. It was obvious to...
Wallflower in Current Events
Walking to the gym gives me time to think about how much my life sucks. Then I have to remind myself that I have Life Dysmorphia. I can’t see how good my life is. For starters, I am walking. I ca...
Moo in Current Events
Every Saturday starts the same way. I get triggered by my roommate. Her cheek, her nerve, her gall, her audacity, and her gumption. I do not want to let it ruin my day. I’ll let the rain take car...
Inner World Peace in Current Events
The calm before the storm. That’s the vibe. Ironically, we are in the middle of a severe storm as I type. I think all the areas of my psyche have agreed to a truce. I have inner world peace. I do...
Tom the Broken in Current Events
I did not go to bed pleased about my weekend last night. I feel like I wasted it. This is nothing new but I feel fed up, officially. ADHD, it’s like being told that there is something wrong with...
V for Vendetta in Current Events
Did you know? My snobby stupid roommate was offered 5K worth of CBD oil for free three times and said no. Lenstar, my ride-or-die, her baby daddy, Zerr, is a veteran who just canceled his lifetim...
Life Dysmorphia in Current Events
I was trembling during my therapy session today. Not from discussing my childhood trauma but from discussing what I’m truly passionate about. I talked about what I wanted to discuss in my podcast...
DOMS Top in Current Events
Everybody kept telling me to talk to my supervisor about doing light duties. I was too stubborn. It is obvious that I am in pain. What happened? Just leg day. I went too hard at the gym on Sunday...
Mundane Monday in Current Events
I forgot about the tension between my supervisor and I. Last week she was on holiday. It was a holiday that turned into a bereavement leave for her, unfortunately. Without us being micromanaged,...
Once More With Feeling in Current Events
It’s a beautiful day. It was a gorgeous weekend. It was a gorgeous week. They were the longest days of the year with the sun closest to its center of force. Happy Summer Solstice! I spent most o...
Rumination in Current Events
I have 99 problems and studying ain’t one. I feel weightless now that the semester is over. I feel aimless, I don’t know what my next move should be. School may not be exacerbating my mental heal...
New POV in Current Events
We know I do not subscribe to baseless superstitious medical beliefs that make us act against our best interests. Disease is not caught, it is not possession, it is created. The recipe is toxic w...
Anger Mismanagement in Current Events
I’m an intellectualizer. This is what makes therapy difficult for me. I already know what I should do. I know what they are going to say. More or less. I intellectualize my emotions. I process th...
Mission Impossible in Current Events
On my way to work this morning, I felt like the cosmos was punishing me for recent epic failures. It’s just like me to play the victim. I was born for this role. If something can go wrong, it is ...
Bloom and Doom in Current Events
I said that I would end up working my nerve today and then I ended up working my nerve today. Manifestation? Or a self-fulfilling prophecy? If something could go wrong it went wrong. My apartmen...
Old Habits Do Not Open New Doors in Current Events
It’s laundry day so I’m wearing my cranky pants. Yesterday I felt like I was on cloud nine because I no longer have to carry the weight of my studies. Today, I’m feeling emotionally dysregulated...
Dread Weight Lifted in Current Events
I don’t know what Cloud Nine feels like but I think I woke up on it today. The weight of school has been lifted. It was dead weight in the end. I was not numbed out today. I could feel everythin...
Blank Space in Current Events
I don’t think that I know how to relax. I don’t have class, I don’t feel like I should be studying. I don’t feel like there is something that I am supposed to do, which is what motivates me to st...
Binge Thinking in Current Events
12 Signs The Only Problem With Your Life Is That You Think About It More Than You Live It Anxiety is usually bred out of inaction. We were born to actualize our potential, not just analyze it. Bi...
Inner Child Neglect in Current Events
I’m aware that I am going through a grieving process. At the end of grief is acceptance. At the end of healing is forgiveness. There are no other endings. I’m not going to get displacement, I am ...
Autobiography of a Big Baby in Current Events
It’s like discovering that there is something wrong with my legs. I can learn to walk again but I will never run. I will never swim and I will never climb. That is what this… dopamine deficiency ...