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For pretty much all of my life, I have been plagued by those negative, intrusive thoughts that I mentioned in the previous entry. I recognize that the intrusive thoughts are a symptom of OCD and ...


October 09, 2021

OCD

So, the new SSRI I’m on is supposed to help with OCD symptoms as well as major depressive disorder and, holy shit, does it work. I have never felt so stable, so balanced, so… rational. I still h...


September 19, 2021

Better.

Since my last entry, I’ve had several therapy sessions and, finally, a very long session with the psychiatrist. It was brilliant, really. Best psych appointment I’ve ever had. He spent 2 hours wi...


August 20, 2021

Not okay.

Just really not. Feeling empty and manic and paralyzed and so sad. It was sudden. I think. Maybe I just can’t see it coming anymore. Or didn’t see it this time. This is my least favorite of al...


February 17, 2021

Rapid Cycling

One minute my anxiety is through the roof and my leg is bouncing and I can’t sit still. The next, I’m sobbing and my body feels like a blob of pudding and I’m exhausted and can’t move. Sometimes...


February 17, 2021

So many tears.

Just. So many. For so many reasons and no reason at all. (sigh) Depression is so boring. I’m over it.


December 14, 2020

Suppression

That’s how I’ve been able to get to the point I’m at with mental illness. It’s not that I have it under control so much as I’ve just gotten very, very good at suppressing it, at suppressing any ...


It’s been a rough few days/weeks/months/year. I’ve been manic for… I don’t know how long. Awhile. If only it was the kind of manic that allowed me to accomplish many things. It has been that k...


November 13, 2020

I'm okay.

I’m not okay right this minute, but I’m okay. Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts forever. The sun will shine again. I have things to feel hopeful about even if I don’t feel any hope right n...


November 05, 2020

Adderall Day... Whatever

Experiment failed. Extreme mania was triggered. I was clenching my jaw so hard for several days that it still hurts after not taking any Adderall for 3 days, like I got punched on both sides of m...


October 30, 2020

Adderall Day 1.5

The overall feeling of general well-being lasted through the whole day and evening. Unfortunately, the insomnia side-effect is definitely a thing. Considering I already had insomnia, I’m not surp...


October 29, 2020

Adderall Day 1

It’s been about 5 hours since my first dose of 20mg Adderall XR. I am feeling pretty calm and have been able to take care of several phone calls that I’ve been putting off (forgetting) for sever...


October 26, 2020

2 1/2 Years

In the two years and five months since the Wanker went to jail, I have accomplished more than in the thirty-nine years and seven months prior. So, I suppose I might have a little something to be ...


October 15, 2020

"I'm so sorry I hurt you."

I think I was wrong. In therapy, back in 2012, she tried to get me to talk about my mother. My mother who died in 2011. And I said no, no point in talking about that, she’s dead, she’s gone, the...


October 11, 2020

ADHD, Combined Type

ā€œThis, the most common type of ADHD, is characterized by impulsive and hyperactive behaviors as well as inattention and distractibility.ā€ To me, it kinda seems like double-whammy ADHD. I wish I o...


September 27, 2020

Motherhood

I’m not cut out for it. I never should have had children. I have never been emotionally equipped to deal with it. I guess I should be thankful that this is the last one I have to go through puber...


September 20, 2020

Is it possible...

…to love you too much? Would it be possible to be overly expressive? Am I? Am I annoying about it? Am I too much? I have recently recognized this thing, this fear, and I don’t know if it’s valid...


September 13, 2020

A study in mushrooms...

Magic mushrooms, that is. Typing is funny. The letters on the screen, hilarious. I am still aware of typos, at least. Okay, so everything above this was written at approximately 9pm last night, S...


September 11, 2020

Would you tell me if...

I was too much? I had become annoying? I was no longer worth it? I talked too much? You didn’t want me around anymore? Or would you pity me? Be afraid of my fragility? Do I seem fragile? I feel f...


September 09, 2020

Love and ADHD.

I’ve always lived under the shadow of the idea that good things would never happen to me because I don’t exactly have a history of good things happening. There were moments in time that I experie...


August 24, 2020

Not fast enough.

I’ve been working on my mental health for 30 years, since I was maybe 12 and first heard of the concept of mental illness. I honestly can’t even remember what it was, that first reference that ma...


July 24, 2020

Emotional Regulation.

I ain’t got none. Kinda lost my shit at work today when I didn’t really need to but had no control over it. Like none. Zero. In an instant, my heart was racing, I was trembling, all the air had b...


July 20, 2020

Out of my league.

That’s how I’ve always felt about pretty much everyone, like I’m just this little nothing small-town girl and I don’t fit in, I’m not good enough, smart enough, educated enough. It’s a particular...


July 19, 2020

Conversation.

I would kill for one right now. Like one of those things where you make a pot of coffee and a friend comes over and you drink coffee and smoke a bunch of cigarettes and maybe some weed, too, and ...


July 17, 2020

Disillusioned.

Sad. Confused. Depressed. Hopeless. There’s just too much bad news. I made a new Facebook account to escape some of it. That was literally easier than going through and un-following a ton of pag...


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