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View ArticleCoping with overwhelming anxiety
I woke today with a feeling of dread. A fear that I don't have whatever it takes ro get through the day.When I think of the things I have to do I just don't think I can jungle everything I think I...
View ArticleY R the 4th Estate + the WH Not Calling Out House Leadership?
Msm reporting today, 7-19-23, appears to show that TFG is actively directing the House Republican caucus to abuse their public communications privileges as members of Congress, to mouth falsehoods, sow...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest, science edition - faster EVs, mini solar arrays, SW US...
Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a...
View Article14,600 Days.
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS FRANK AND UNCOMFORTABLE DISCUSSION OF SUICIDAL IDEATIONS. THIS MAY UPSET SOME READERS. 1983, Day 1 Sometime between August and November of 1983, I tried to hang...
View ArticleA Social Security Disability Denial, the NY DOL, Coursera, and an Anxiety...
The last Diary I posted was about how I had just been denied for Social Security Disability, and was waiting to find out if my lawyer was going to drop my case. Unfortunately, she did, and after...
View ArticleThe Strength of Uncertainty
A recent story on CNN (www.cnn.com/...) got me to thinking on when I felt the most at peace and realized that it was when events were uncertain, but depended on my actions to a large extent. This was,...
View ArticleThis is my brain these days
Inner monologues of an anxiety-prone, catastrophizing Democrat who also surges with hopefulness:Headline: Geert Wilders shocks Europe with far-right populist victoryMy Brain: Oh no! It’s 2015 Brexit /...
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....
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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