There are more of us than there are of them. We are not the “resistance.”...
Long before this latest body blow, the most depressing aspect of our current socio-political climate for me has been watching the crowds at Trump rallies. The elderly white woman screaming, “Get the...
View ArticleManufactured Helplessness & Frustration
Let me tell you a story of two phone calls I recently made.The first one was to the magazine, Psychology Today. I wanted to talk to someone about the infestation of right-wing trolls on their...
View ArticleThe most important quote I've read in an article
In her book “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” writer Austin Channing Brown says she has “learned not to fear the death of hope. In order for me to stay in this work, hope...
View ArticleThese two states just made mental health education mandatory—but what about...
Teaching children about mental health seems like a no-brainer, but remarkably, most American schools aren’t required to address it—until now. Effective July 1, public schools in both New York and...
View ArticleInquiry: Call for People with Specific Expertise To Direct Me Toward Proper...
I’m writing a lot and publishing little at the moment because I’m bogged down in a great deal of research. I am writing on a number of subjects related to accessibility issues for disabled people, some...
View ArticleI really do care, so much it makes me sick. Do u?
I had just hopped off the BART train at Oakland’s MacArthur station, weaving through a seething mass of bodies on the platform to make my way downstairs, through the turnstiles, and out to the...
View ArticleHow The Trump Separation Policy Destroyed The Lives Of Children—Anxiety,...
If there is just one article you read today, this one by the NY Times is a must read. It describes the devastating cost of Trump’s brutal child separation policy.This inhumane policy basically stole...
View ArticleA Cog Becomes Aware Of The Machine’s Abyss
In two recentdiaries I have been experimenting with photo placement in order to learn by doing. This is a third installment in this experiment. Out of fairness and kindness, I wish to inform you that...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/1/2018: Anxiety Dream Come to Life
I previously wrote about anxiety dreams in my diary about impostor syndrome several months ago. In particular, I briefly mentioned a recurring dream that often afflicts me:There’s the dream in which I...
View ArticleExpressions of No Tomorrow (Suicide Prevention Week Sept 9-15)
A few weeks back I mentioned my intent to publish today, the first day of National Suicide Prevention Week, a post I wrote about my nephew’s suicide earlier this year.I had to release myself from that...
View ArticleMy Mental Health Story
It is World Mental Health Day, so I figured I would tell my story.In 2012 I had a medical event (contracted Labyrinthitis) which caused me to have severe anxiety and depression. For the longest time,...
View ArticleRacism, Fascism and General Anxiety
Racism is a more specific case of a general human problem. That is the problem of not pushing to dismantle that which creates advantage for me and mine at the expense of you and yours. It is played...
View ArticleLavender for Anxiety - New Findings from Japan
The scent of lavender has long been thought to have calming, antianxiety effects, but the biological mechanism behind this phenomenon has been something of a mystery — until now.Researchers in Japan...
View ArticleIn the middle of the night part two
Hello. I am writing this diary as an update / continuation of my previous diary, ' In the middle of the night, ' which can be found in The Grieving Room, a group here at DKOS. I thought it would...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/22/2018: Making a List and Checking It Twice
It’s almost exactly T minus 24 hours until my flight from Houston to Pittsburgh takes off. I’ll stay the night with my niece and her girlfriend in Pittsburgh, maybe grab some Primanti Bros. the next...
View ArticleWYFP? I need more drugs
MFP starts with my shrink quitting. I liked her, damnit. We actually went to high school together. But the mental health center I go to lost a program through which shrinks could get student loans...
View ArticleDear Millennials, Let Us Not "Millennial" the Next Millennials
Congratulations people born between 1982 and 2004! You’ve been “Millennialed”! Society has deemed you a wanton force for disruptive ruin of our treasured societal goods such as marriage, Applebees, and...
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WYFP - What I Did On My "Gulf War" Vacation.
So as many of you know, I was a bit worried about going to Gulf Wars in Lumberton, MS because I had not been to any Society for Creative Anachronism events in years and didn’t know anyone at all. I...
View Article5 free resources for mental health support and suicide prevention you can...
If you or a loved one are in need of support, you are not alone. Mental health needs, crisis situations, and life changes impact everyone differently throughout the course of our lives. While...
View ArticleAOC has Been Great for my Mental Health
I don’t know if you realize this, but life under the 45th President has been for a lack of a better term, stressful. Sure it’s not enough that his policies stab at my core with existential dread like...
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