I started my blog over a year ago now. Then: Two days after I published my very first post, I was dragged over to the Emergency Room for a panic attack I was having in the middle of the night. My idea back then was that everything I was struggling with, that I was the […]
So yesterday I was approved for Social Security Disability benefits. Not because of physical illness. Strictly for my #mentalhealth This was the FIRST time I applied. No need for a lawyer. No nothing. Saying this was an incredibly pleasant surprise is an understatement. I didn’t tweet about this the minute I was approved bc I […]
“Just saw a year-old episode of South Park earlier. It triggered me. It’s one addressing the national school shooting tragedies. What triggered me was how everyone was treating the one panicking mother as “overreacting” and “negative” like she’s supposed to see this as “normal” Every1 in said South Park episode dismissing the scared mother reminded […]
As I became more interested in learning about this man’s music career from when he made those early home-basement recordings to when one of those tapes ending up being distributed through an indie record company a few years later to where he is today, I noticed something with every newly discovered song I heard by […]
It was nearing the end of September. I had just been hired at a local supermarket which would be my first job in 2 years. It was retail. It was going to be very tough for me. But I was willing to challenge myself to do it anyway as it seemed to be a more […]
I was receiving so much support on Twitter from people more than ever. And vise versa. In fact, this wasn’t even from just MH Advocates anymore. It was a wider range. In little to no time I had around 3,000 followers, all due to my dedication to the Resistance. Twitter had a trending FollowBack campaign […]
My birthday had come. It was the end of June and I was not looking forward to it. I would be turning 30 and I hated the idea of being at the stereotypical age where you are no longer “young” and are expected to become a stereotypical “grown-up” overnight more or less. Given what life’s […]
