Okay, this has been on my mind for days because two unrelated women on two unrelated podcasts told nearly the same story… They both said they were “sort of” dating a guy who invited them to a party at his…
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A man in a hole baking cookies
It’s so hard to start writing when I know I’ve written everything before. It’s a journal, it’s an exercise, not a news report. And exercises are only beneficial if you do them repeatedly. I’m really stuck because normally writing is…
Generational Stuff
I ruminate on my teenage conversations with adults, still, as I approach my 40s. Part of it is I imagine what I’d tell my own kids if they were like me. It fills me with fear even though I intend…
Pain Scaling
Having a conversation about wisdom teeth pain, a friend and I laughed about being in too much pain to watch TV. The pain just being too constant a notifier. And you wish you could be like “I know, Jaw, I…
Posted in Depression & Suicide
When What You Want Is An Absence
Goal setting is easy in this age where it’s talked about a lot. Advice for goal setting is helpful and plentiful. But I was thinking about how I want to feel better, I want to feel not depressed, and it…
Posted in Depression & Suicide
Space Isn’t Going To Save Humanity If Humanity Can’t Save The Earth
Optimism for the future is fine, I guess. Hoping things will turn out is better for your sanity than expecting they won’t. I’m hesitant to be too honest with people like that but it nags at me when I see…
2024 stuff
In 2023 I was focused on inner peace. I wanted to be happier on the inside, stop ruminating, stop feeling contaminated by my upbringing, stop feeling guilty all the time. And I worked on that. Just finding myself acceptable as…
Posted in Pragmatism
Criminal Minds Season 8
The Silencer – 2 Okay, new character… and they immediately over do it with her intro. Garcia going off about this person we’ve never heard of is so tedious followed by a tedious joke when she walks in. I feel…
Posted in Pop Culture
Criminal Minds Season 7
Reminder of how I scale things 1 through 3: 1 is skip episode, 2 is watch if you want, and 3 is must watch if you actually like Criminal Minds. It Takes A Village – 3 And of course this…
Posted in Pop Culture
Limiting Beliefs
I was watching a panel discussion among therapists about depression. And the conversation about subjective experience came up. Convincing a patient to deal with their depression – Convincing them it’s possible to not be depressed – is like convincing them…
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