As I wrote at length yesterday, I fought down one of the biggest anxiety attacks I’ve ever experienced Thursday. I’ve had them more acute, to the point that I’ve been hospitalized for fear of having a heart attack, but none have been as long-lasting. So today I’m rewarding myself for overcoming that challenge, partially. Part… Read More Achievements and Rewards
Yesterday I experienced the longest-lasting anxiety attack I’ve ever experienced. Regular readers of this blog, and the Facebook and Twitter pages that it links to, know that I’m an Internet radio DJ. I have two shows per week, one on Thursday evenings that I do on my own, and one on Saturday evenings that I… Read More Facing Down the Demon
This one’s going to be short, since I have something of a busy day today, but I wanted to stop in and let you know that I hit a milestone a couple posts back. This is post #202 in this blog, by far the longest I’ve stuck with any blog ever. (I had a bad… Read More A Milestone and an Achievement
Today I saw (and subsequently shared) a meme featuring an elderly woman’s lap full of pea pods, with her shelling them and the caption “Part of the problem with the world today is no one shells peas with Grandma anymore.” I can’t say that I necessarily agree with that sentiment, as there are both a… Read More Memories of a Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Today didn’t effectively start until after 1:00 pm. I slept in until 10:00 am, woke up, had vitals and meds and coffee and breakfast, then went back to sleep for another couple of hours or so. I also woke up in a good amount of pain. It’s days like this that I spent weeks writing… Read More An Early Assessment
Yesterday I wrote about the difficulty I’d been having about keeping the various aspects of my life organized and productive given the recent bout of depression I’ve been dealing with. I also committed to re-establishing my use of my daily checklists and my food tracker app yesterday, and wrote that I’d be back today with… Read More Status Report
They say that the best thing to do, psychologically speaking, when you fall off a horse is to get back on it. Almost three months ago, I fell off the horse. Part of that I attribute to hyperfocusing on a new activity. Since February 8th I’ve logged almost 450 hours into it, and that’s taken… Read More Getting Back on the Horse
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