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Tag: Mental Health

  • Why Madwomen Seem So Nice

    Image by Stefan Kellar on Pixabay But you have no idea Today I mastered a tempest. But to the 20-something clerk at the clinic check-in desk, I was just another incoherent lady who thought she was vaguely entitled to special treatment for reasons that weren’t very clear. I had a 10 a.m. neurologist appointment that I’d made…

  • What Happened When I Started Olding

    Photo by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay Real life happened, that’s what It was a great day earlier this year when I decided I was done adulting and ready to start olding. With olding, you’re no longer compromising with the phony expectations of the “Real World.” Instead, you’re just grown up and ready to grow, by God. So…

  • Surviving Message Lockdown

    Photo by Niels Smeets on Unsplash You’re not alone. You’re just not listening. I recently spent some time trying to cheer up a friend. If you already know I failed, you are smarter than I was in that moment. But please don’t judge too harshly, because even though I really do know better, sometimes I still…

  • On Refusing to Be Ill

    Photo by Allan Bueno on Unsplash And what do to when this no longer works Okay, fine. I’m ill. It surprises me that I am even considering writing this post because I am not allowed to be ill, I have never been allowed to be ill, and part of me is sure that if I just refuse to…

  • Welcome to the Ward

    Photo by Jens Lindner on Unsplash The poetry of things heard there “We think you may be violet, aderanger to your self anothers:Did you know that’s why you’re hear?Do you recall? “And so you’ve been a-mittenedfor a seventy-twoour hole;“And I’m to get you saddled, andbe sure you know the ruse. Have youany quests so far?All write, then,…

  • The secret storm in my brain

    …that even I didn’t notice. This is not your usual how-I-surmounted-mental-illness story, though I admit I enjoy a good how-I-surmounted-mental-illness story from time to time. Rather, it’s a story about how everything I thought I know about my mental condition might have been wrong. See, I thought my brain had some idiosyncrasies of mood and some…