My therapist says I’m hyper intelligent. She also says I’m bipolar. You take the sweet with the spicy. There was a stretch of my life when I was at some party or another every weekend (and often also many weekdays). College is an especially strange time to look back on. I’d been so strictly under …
It looks like I will write two posts for this blog before the year is out. Good on me. I’m not sure at what point in my transition all my memories of “the beforetimes” were offloaded, taken from one box labeled “mine” and placed into another labeled “not mine.” I am fairly certain that that …
Continue reading "On Depression, pt. 7: Harry Potter Backroads"
I should be spending my time grading my students' papers right now, instead of spending the entire day writing on this blog. But writing is my outlet, and knowing I won't be able to write here for the next few days, I want to get in as much as I can now. Actually, let's talk …
This blog is another coping mechanism. One which only sort of works sometimes. I've tried as best I can to write honestly, but to write logically. I have laid out things I've done, things I've thought, and experiences I've had. I consider each of these meaningful, and I am pleased with the format so far. …
I have social anxiety. I often hide from others. When my depression is especially bad, I push them away. Or I push myself away. As someone who has sleep paralysis (look it up, or wait for me to talk about it in another post), I have had a few of what are described as "out …
Continue reading "On Authenticity, pt. 2 (and Depression, pt. 4)"
As I've said, I'm from a small town in the South. But I've not always lived here. In fact, I just returned after completing a graduate program at a university in the middle of a desert in the Southwest, nearly 2000 miles away. As should be fairly obvious by now, I've been in and out of …
I've been posting a lot of pictures of girls performing the various roles discussed in my posts recently. Pretty sure you don't have to be a psychologist to figure out why, if you've been reading any of this at all. Turns out, just like choosing genders in video games, I am still self-conscious about this, …
Well, I tried. But I choose what I want to write on any given post based solely upon what random thing I want to write on at the time. And despite my better efforts, currently, that thing is depression. I alluded to a few things in my discussion on my hormones. Namely, that my lack of …
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