Category: Mental Health
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Heart of Steel
I am an empath. I remember the day I started being able to feel other people’s emotions. I was young, watching the first Christopher Reeve “Superman” movie. There’s a part where his dad on earth dies and his mother is heartbroken and he decides it’s time to leave home. I think I was like 7…
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ADHD Emotional Dysregulation
This is my number one problem with ADHD. In the before times, when I wasn’t taking anything for it, I had these huge emotional swings that were epic and daunting for those around me. I could go between deliriously happy and epically angry in about 30 seconds. I thought I had something else going on,…
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The Narrative
As I get older, I am starting to realize that we all have a running narrative in our heads. It tells us who we think we are, what we believe we can do, and how we interact with the world. I don’t think it’s as much a psychological phenomenon as it is a sociological one.…
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Personality Types
I’ve become fascinated with the Enneagram. If you are unfamiliar, it’s basically an ancient personality test that tells which of these 9 personality groups you fit into. The cool thing about this vs Myers-Briggs, or any other test is that each group has a spectrum you fall into depending on how healed and functional you…
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My Very Unhealthy Relationship with Food
Way back, when I was tiny Zander, I wasn’t permitted to snack outside of meals very often. The old school way of parenting was that children should be seen but not heard, and all food consumed was during 3 meals. The Boomers and their parents missed the boat on this. By the time I was…
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Fairytales and Future Dreams
My life feels like a fairytale today. School starts soon in our state and I need to get the children back from my ex this week. We are meeting halfway between our respective cities. My wife and I decided that we wanted to do our own thing a few days before we have to meet…
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In Felix’s Memory
Facebook is a mess over Felix’s death. There are people who Felix was close to who continue to assert that he was male. And then a lot of people who claim that they didn’t know and therefore it can’t be true. A large group of other people are spending a lot of time and energy…
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Two quick (or not so quick) things
Yesterday was a goofy day. I woke up yesterday to the news that Republicans in the Senate changed their vote for the PACT ACT, which is designed to help veterans who have been exposed to toxins while deployed to the Middle East. It makes the process of applying for VA benefits easier for veterans. Currently…
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Broken Piles of Junk…or not?
I took my wife to a doctor’s appointment this morning and then dropped her off at work afterwards. It’s a stressful appointment for her and I am more than happy to go and be present for her. On my way back home, I saw this pile of wood and debris from a house being demolished.…