This week has been rough for me. So you might think that when a client offered unsolicited compliments on my work for my new supervisor, it would have been welcome. It wasn’t. Depressive episodes make you doubt everything, even whether you’d ever be happy again. Even if you know these are lies, you still can’t […]
A couple nights ago, I had a dream I was being chased by an amorphic shadow monster, one that tortured and killed anyone who got in its way. I’ve had this dream before. And while I am no expert in dream reading, I can’t think of a more accurate nightmare that depicts the darkness […]
I have a little bit of a celebrity crush on Anna Kendrick. She has that girl next door charm, and tremendous talent as a singer and actress (although Pitch Perfect 3 was a disappointment, but I digress). Among her notable works is The Last Five Years, a story of the relationship between her character, Cathy, […]
Yesterday, I asked for clarity, both in the form of new glasses and in the form of a better understanding of my mental illnesses. Today, I am asking for a little boost, a little more energy to get through the day. Because each day I seem to end up a little short and each morning […]
Today, I had an eye doctor’s appointment to get a new prescription and some new glasses. My current glasses are showing a bit too much damage from 7 years of use, which includes falling asleep on them more often than I care to admit. And as I think about it, I realize that my vision […]
I’m not sure this is a mental health related post per se, but it was what was on my mind today as I sat down to write this post, so I decided to run with it. I love lightning and thunderstorms, the bigger and louder, the better. Same thing with a good hard rain. Perhaps […]
As a kid, I loved playing catcher in Little League and Babe Ruth League Baseball. Perhaps because of all the time I spent crouched down, or perhaps because that is how it was meant to happen, I developed knee pains that plagued me through middle school and high school. Doctors, physical therapists, and athletic trainers […]
