10 days ago I was fired from my job. Let go is the polite way of putting it, but it all boils down to the same thing. After nearly 5 years, I find myself unemployed again. I’m grieving the loss of this job. I loved the company, and I loved my coworkers. Sure, I didn’tContinue reading “Fired”
Category Archives: depression
Aging
I just turned 37. Yesterday, in fact. And I feel like a loser. I have very few prospects, if any. I live with my parents and I’m unable to move out. I’m facing possibly being homeless as a result because they may need to move. I’m in debt. I’m working on getting out of debt,Continue reading “Aging”
Stood Up
I got stood up by my therapist tonight. We usually just do check-ins, making sure I’m not going off in those fun manic ways. But I actually needed to talk to someone tonight. The person I paid to talk to just didn’t show up, and it looks like he canceled all my future appointments. I’mContinue reading “Stood Up”
Something about growth and goop
This has been a hard morning. I just woke up and everything felt off. I haven’t been home in a week, and thankfully I go back today. I’m still a part of the partial hospitalization program. We’ve just started talking about titrating me down to the lower-level IOP treatment. The past couple of sessions withContinue reading “Something about growth and goop”
Self Love Poem
This poem was an assignment from my therapist, which I felt was worth widely sharing
The past few months
At the end of May, I hit a very low point. I’ve been struggling, as I usually do, for a while. But it had gotten a lot worse. I hit a point of being about one bad thing away from a mental breakdown and was having ideation daydreams several times an hour. The tipping pointContinue reading “The past few months”
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