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Category: It’s All Too Much

These posts focus on the downside of my symptoms: depression, hopelessness, etc.

#610 – Burnt Bridges

Usually around this time of night I feel isolated and alone. Tonight it’s a little worse. I feel like I’ve been burning bridges left and right and that I’m isolated because of my own actions, so I feel like I can’t reach out to anyone because there’s no one left to reach out to. My… Read More #610 – Burnt Bridges

March 7, 2020 quinntessential meLeave a comment

#608 – Relapse

I haven’t written in my blog for almost 14 months. Life has been just busy enough to sustain me over that time, but as I’m getting closer to applying to my degree program I’m finding myself with more and more free time as the things I can do in preparation become fewer and fewer, and… Read More #608 – Relapse

March 1, 2020March 2, 2020 quinntessential me

#607 – Reaching Out

Regular readers of my blog – well, the ones I had before I took most of last year off – know that I use my blog as a coping mechanism whenever my mental illnesses get rough. I’d guess that most of my posts here for the first year and change I was writing were very… Read More #607 – Reaching Out

January 10, 2019 quinntessential meLeave a comment

#604 – Been a While, Hasn’t It?

So hey there, how are you doing? Been a while, hasn’t it? I have over two months to catch you up on, and that has been a hectic time. My apologies for disappearing, but there have been reasons. The last time I wrote to you, I was just getting ready to start the spring semester… Read More #604 – Been a While, Hasn’t It?

March 24, 2018 quinntessential meLeave a comment

#578 – Productivity and Devastation

Today was a busy day. Got laundry done, did some pre-cooking for later in the week, finished an algebra quiz that’s due tomorrow, cleaned up the kitchen a couple of times, got all my usual stuff on my checklist done, watched V for Vendetta (“Remember, remember the fifth of November …”), then settled in for… Read More #578 – Productivity and Devastation

November 5, 2017 quinntessential meLeave a comment

Perfect Storm

Right now I’m in a headspace that I haven’t been in for some time. For starters, today has been spent unsuccessfully fighting a persistent, nagging, unproductive cough left over from the cold. I feel constantly just on the edge of a coughing fit that makes me dizzy and causes pain in my right shoulder during… Read More Perfect Storm

October 17, 2017 quinntessential meLeave a comment

Not Claustrophobic After All

Today’s section in The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, Sixth Edition by Edmund J. Bourne, PhD dealt with claustrophobia. This was a section that I was looking forward to, since I’ve been dealing with what I thought was claustrophobia, but after reading the section, I have doubts about that. My so-called claustrophobia started sometime last year,… Read More Not Claustrophobic After All

June 8, 2017 quinntessential meLeave a comment

Yet Another Family Emergency

I’ll be waking up at 4:00 am tomorrow to get my wife on a plane to Arizona to see her dad. If you could keep her and her family in your thoughts we would both appreciate it. I can’t be very forthcoming with details at this point, but things are not good. On a related… Read More Yet Another Family Emergency

May 11, 2017 quinntessential meLeave a comment

Quick and Dirty Mom Update 4/19/2017

My wife got a call from my mother earlier tonight, something that’s highly unusual for Mom to do. Mom asked my wife if she could be outside the front door to her facility in 20 minutes to pick her up. Mom says they’re recruiting an army from the residents in her skilled nursing facility and… Read More Quick and Dirty Mom Update 4/19/2017

April 19, 2017 quinntessential meLeave a comment

Mom Update 4/7/2017

Today Mom had an MRI done to determine the cause of the speech aphasia and loss of motor skills. It was as I had suspected from early on. Mom has had a minor stroke. That explains all of the weird symptoms that she’s been exhibiting – the loss of communication, the loss of motor skills,… Read More Mom Update 4/7/2017

April 7, 2017 quinntessential meLeave a comment

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I am a queer non-binary (they/them) disabled leftist, spouse, parent, cat owner, partner, mental health patient & advocate, student, gamer, historical re-creator, & internet DJ who loves with acts of service, who gives amazing healing hugs, and who passionately and wholeheartedly believes that BLACK LIVES MATTER.

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