What does depression feel like? That's what ads for antidepressants ask us, as they parade about cartoons of sad rocks rolling lazily along a sparse black and white landscape. Right now, it feels like this enormous weight sitting on my chest, one that refuses to go away. I look fine on the outside (even on Twitter), ...
Tag Archive: struggle
Jun
19
Day 5, Where I Already Begin Going Stir Crazy
Day 5 of 28. Last night was a rough one. And I suspect the weekend is going to be tough, too. During the week, they keep you very busy. There's a class or group almost all the time from 8 in the morning until 3 or 4 in the afternoon. It's the nights and weekends where I ...
Jun
04
In or Out?
I've been through a metric shitton of therapy, both individual and group, to varying degrees of success. Spent two years in an intensive outpatient program (IOP), in fact. Grief recovery and suicide prevention was the main focus. Most everyone in that ...
Oct
07
The Trees Had Burned Down to the Ground
Lot of my friends are hurting at the moment, and I don't like it. Just finished reading a post over at Britt's blog and it made me...acquire severe eye allergies. Same thing happened when I found out Hilly's cat died recently. Yeah, again...you can do whatever you want to me, say whatever ...
Aug
31
Priorities
Right, so I know Saturday was supposed to be the end of the Summer of Love here at 2HT. And it would have been. Except today is, well, still technically August. And I have been begging for Crystal to write me a guest post from within the first ...
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I’m a writer. A lover, not a fighter. An amateur philosopher who enjoys shaving giraffes and dancing around my living room in my boxers.