Tag: depression
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Figuring out what ‘better’ means
It has been almost two weeks since I posted about my plan to spend July listening to my body. Ask me how I am doing? Not great. I spent the other night agonizing a repeat trip the Emergency Room. I’d fallen out of sync with pain management, and I couldn’t find a comfortable way to…
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Best laid plans & a bad back
I decided a few days ago, as I looked at four unpublished posts, that perhaps I’d start another writing challenge in July to motivate myself back into writing & publishing here again. As I declared to my sister “I am in a funk” and needed something to kick start myself. However, life had other plans.…
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Changes: why my voices have been quiet
In January, everything changed. Sure, we rolled over to the halfway through the decade, and the new year, but more than that, my family experienced a major life event. Not a birth, not a death, but a ‘major mental health crisis’. Respecting the privacy of my family, I will not really say much more than…
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When the voices whisper…
I realized something Monday morning… I am more depressed than I was. Or am. It has been brewing for a while, just how long, I am not sure. The past few weeks have been a bit of blur. It started some time after or around my birthday. Writing my memories kept me going and gave…
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Memory #24: Darkness
I don’t remember when it started, it just always seemed to be there. Many would say I was generally pretty happy, but I think we become very good at putting on a ‘face’ to the world. We have expectations placed upon us that we must live up to, no matter the cost. I was expected…