Lessons I've Learned During Covid: Part Thirteen Trying to Pull Myself Out of...
I had a steady as she goes week last week, but starting Monday, to quote a phrase from a well known 1960-1970’s television show, “my tiny ship was rocked.” Yes, I know I have bipolar, anxiety and...
View ArticleTrump anxiety
I think Trump has mental problems. I know that I have said a lot of personal criticism of him, but now I think that's not very effective. I think that Trump has high self esteem, but is sensitive to...
View ArticleWYFP - Treading Water
Ah, school. We’re a couple of weeks into the semester now, and while I’ve been on top of things so far, I feel like any second now it’s all going to blow up in my face. It’s an anxiety thing, I know,...
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Dkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleImagine November 4. Will you regret that you could have done more?
You likely remember what you felt in November 2016. Thinking about a repeat of that may make you feel anxiety or despair. Turn that nervous energy into action. You can do more than vote. Do it!I’ve...
View ArticleReligion and science
I don't think science and religion are non-overlapping magisteria. I think science explains why we have religion. Religion reduces anxiety, in particular about death, but also about relationships....
View ArticleWYFP - What A Week!
It’s been a week. School has been rough this week with a lot of midterms, I have a speech due on Sunday, and the High Holy Day season is still going on. I’m holiday’d out.Monday I had a geology exam....
View ArticleFeeling anxious about the election? Feel there's nothing you can do? Donate $5.
Right now, Joe’s way ahead in the polls, but there’s still a lot of anxiety. I think a lot of that is because there’s not a whole lot we can do. It’s like being on a plane in heavy turbulence. We wish...
View ArticleSee this video explaining why how we act in the coming few weeks will be...
Polling is a science in that it follows standard methodology to produce data that the scientist then interprets for those of us with no relevant statistical education. A win chart is used in sports...
View ArticlePoll: How Are You Dealing With Election Stress & Anxiety?
My weighted blanket and massager is causing my acupressure mat to dig into my skin. My gel blackout eye mask isn’t blocking out all of my sun lamps. After mixing the most soothing pastel soft pink,...
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 ArticleTeaching during Covid-- Oh Help me Jesus! Lesson Twenty-six: Will This Ever...
I defy anyone to teach middle school or high school during Covid. I really defy anyone to teach in a hybrid mode to any students. You are allowing students into your class, while your sanitizing...
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Goodbye, stuff.
Some of my best thinking, best problem-solving, best mind clearing moments happen out on the trails. Miles away from communities and cities and work and home ownership and people. And stuff. Anywhere...
View ArticleDo you have any nervous habits? I do...& I wonder if I am abnormal.
I am an odd one, Charlie Brown.I have a habit and it is very odd. I do the following to distract myself from pain, or when I am nervous, or out of force of habit….1) I take a pen cap off a bic pen, one...
View ArticleIf Biden Wants to Make Us Feel Safe Again, A Public Inauguration is the WORST...
I will be completely frank and say that I think the public inauguration is pure arrogance and foolishness.If Biden and the other Democratic people attending die there, then he’s essentially thrown...
View ArticleFauci dubs Long Covid "post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection" or PASC
In a ‘wide-ranging’ briefing on Wednesday, Feb 24, the White House COVID-19 Response Team's chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, explained that what we’re looking at with Long-Haul COVID-19...
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Mental Health: It's Random
I watched the Prince Harry-Meghan interview. I believe them and I feel compassion for their difficulties. If it were up to me and I were a British taxpayer, I would be using this occasion to demand the...
View ArticleWYFP - Midterm Blues
Midterms — when my grade anxiety goes into high gear. I finished all my midterms Thursday, and I’m so over it. I know I got an A for geology lecture, and now I have 2 days off a week to study more, and...
View ArticleOllie Ollie Oxen Free
Like millions of others, I played Hide and Seek as a child. I was never particularly good at it, being slow of foot, nor particularly bad at it, understanding that a better hiding spot would hide one...
View ArticleTop Comments: Perchance to Dream Edition
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd...
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