Greetings and salutations, blog readers! I haven’t been posting much, I have been trying to take care of other needs, namely my mental health, which brings me to today’s blog post topic. Last night, I had the first good night sleep I have had in ages. Usually I have either terrible, often violent, fucked up …
Greetings and Salutations, blog readers! I am BACK and feeling so much better for my time away from the blog. If you didn’t read the last blog, I had to take a break from the blog, and from a lot of stuff, to prevent some massive burnout. I rarely allow myself guiltfree time off, and …
Continue reading Daily Blog #404: Successful break, and now we are back
Greetings and Salutations, Blog Readers! Today will be a quick update, and honestly it may turn into a daily update weekly blog, because I think I am going to take some pressure off of myself to update this week, and not worry about blog posts. I know I need to post regularly to grow the …
Greetings and Salutations, Blog Readers! Today I am low on energy, I slept well but woke up tired, and I am trying to push ahead anyways. The end of the year is coming, and I have several goals for the new year, and some new methods and systems I am working on having for myself, …
Continue reading Daily Blog #355: Selfcare is doing what you need to do, to do what you need to do.
It’s hard for it to NOT be hard. As in, days that go really well, can kind of freak you out. Realizing you have managed to ride a depressive episode and not actually do anything stupid, or struggle as much as usual? Can give you an anxiety attack. You can get anxiety over not having …
Greetings and Salutations, blog readers! Me, wearing my loops during the work day. They work great for reducing all the ambient noise that slowly drives me nuts. Today we are talking about and reviewing the Loop “Quiet” earbuds, designed for reducing sound without eliminating it. For the record, these little earbuds were designed for, and …
Greetings and Salutations, Blog Readers Today, we are talking about something I have been working on, a little on my own, a little in therapy! And something that, as it turns out, quite a few of you could also stand to hear about, based on conversations with some of you about your lives and journeys. …
Greetings and Salutations, my dearest Blog Readers! Today we are talking about one of the most powerful tools in my positive mental health arsenal: An Attitude of Gratitude This is something most people who suffer from Anxiety and Depression are told by doctors, counselors, friends, etc: An Attitude of Gratitude will help you. I never …
Greetings and Salutations, Blog Readers. I was trying to decide what to blog about today, as I have a few thoughts about what blog posts to write, but, in the end, a nice generic sit and chat blog seemed best suited for my current mood and the pacing on the blog. A catch up. A …
Continue reading Daily Blog #330: Thoughts about stuff in my life.
Greetings and Salutations, Blog Readers! Today we are talking about things you can do to help fight depression, and the depression spells, when you feel them coming on. Often, as we get better at navigating our mental unwellness, we end up slowly learning how to recognize these "spells". In my case, I can often feel …
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