The Antidote (photo diary)
A tiny spider in the middle of it's tiny sparkling web.There's more stress in my life just now. In addition to what all of us have been dealing with recently. I won't go into detail, mainly because I'm...
View ArticleSaturday Top Comments: So What Now?
Previously, I mentioned that at the end of January I took a comprehensive neuropsychological exam to get some diagnoses. Welp, I got the results back a couple weeks ago. Here at Top Comments we welcome...
View ArticleDreams
Every night before I go to sleep, I give my subconscious a suggestion. I’ll have a restful sleep and wake up in a positive mood. And I will dream and remember it. My fulminating subconscious is free to...
View ArticleCartoon: Age of anxiety
As always, if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, Sparky’s List! You’ll get an advance peek at the cartoon each week, along...
View ArticleAnxiety and Action: A short poem for the restless souls
I realize how much the results from four years ago changed us. Yes, we all became anxious, but this anxiety led to greater activism at all levels. There are more volunteers making calls even when they...
View ArticleLemmings On the Precipice? Or, Are We All So Exhausted From Being Misled For...
There used to be a time in these United States where a majority of us had confidence and trust in our institutions. That trust extended to local, state and national government, the press/media, and of...
View ArticleStrange Forces Make This Election Unusually Unpredictable (VIDEO and text)
“How can it be so close?” Incomprehensible, when one considers that one of the candidates has a huge collection of what used to be considered “automatic disqualifiers” that somehow fail to drive away...
View ArticleAs We Approach Halloween, Expect Scary (and Useless) Election Articles
On October 26, 2012, CNN ran this piece about Obama struggling to reach white voters. They discussed he was hovering at 40% with them and needed 80% with minority voters to have a chance of holding on...
View Article-scratches head- Why "should" I be terrified, again?
What happens if I’m not? What if I’m, idk, verklempt instead? Giddy? Solicitous? Contemptuous? Aroused?Bemused?Skeptical?if I wanted clickbait, I’d...well, shit.Nonetheless. -plonk-Being generous and...
View ArticleI'm confident about Harris, but I'm also anxious that Trump will still win.
Okay. I think it’s time I posted something on here. I’m a 41-year old with Asperger’s living in Boise and I’m truly terrified about the possible results of the election. The polls show that the race is...
View ArticleHow Do You Feel about the November Election? Confident? Anxious? Time to do...
How Do You Feel about the November Election? A lot of us have some anxiety. We really want to see: A Harris Presidency: We can’t afford to lose our democracy to Trump’s schemes. A Democratic...
View ArticleWait, So Tr*mp Is NOT About Economic Anxiety? Mass Deportations Would Cost...
Billionaires benefit most from Tr*mp’s tax policies, and their billions leave them zero economic anxiety. Upper/ upper-middle non-degree voters are 2:1 Tr*mp, but their high incomes shield them from...
View ArticleDehumanization: The highway to evil. Anxiety and Buddhism.
I’ll start with:Humanism and empathy may be possible on a small interpersonal level, indeed sometimes we punish the lack thereof with our laws. The less personal it becomes the more they fade...
View ArticleSometimes you need to write something different.
Sometimes you feel overwhelmed by events, you need a break, for sanity's sake.No, I haven’t forgotten, IP, Project 2025, or even the climate and environmental crisis etc, etc, but I still want to...
View ArticleTHE GROWING TOLL: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMPACTING MENTAL HEALTH GLOBALLY
SHARE THISSUBSCRIBEClimate change is no longer a distant threat; it’s a present-day reality impacting communities worldwide. Beyond the visible environmental devastation, climate change is also...
View ArticleThe Noise and Disarray of Trying to Wrap Your Head Around Climate Change
I will be 24 this July. Almost weekly I confront myself with the idea of if I have even a glimpse of a future that’s worth living for or if it’ll be better for everyone if I take myself out of the...
View ArticleOnce again, I apologize for my Dyslexia.
UPDATE: Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 · 12:53:04 PM +00:00·LaFeministaA useful site dyslexiaida.org for all concerned. UPDATE: Thursday, Apr 25, 2024 · 12:35:20 PM +00:00·LaFeministaI use Grammarly, not only...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety, You Suck
So we made it through another week, go team us! I’m struggling to finish up my grad school application, mostly because my anxiety is telling me I will never get in so why bother? Thankfully I have a...
View ArticleManaging the "Stupids" In Your Life
National Suicide and Crisis Hotline 988 (www.nimh.nih.gov/...)It is nearing the end of January.Nature has hit us pretty hard. We’ve already had out tenth winter storm come across the mainland U.S., and...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety, You Suck
So as some of you might know, I graduated last week from college with a bachelor’s in anthropology, that I started in 1987. Great, right? I worked hard and all that. It still seems a little unreal....
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