Category: Mental Health
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Daily Prompt 8/23/23
I am feeling empowered, in control, and really good overall. This is a good week so far. I have done so much processing in the last few days and my appointment with my therapist on Monday really helped me get through a lot. It feels good to have gotten to this point! I feel normal,…
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Once Upon a Time
There were parents who had children just because they thought they were supposed to. These parents thought the best way to raise these children was to direct every part of their lives and force them to be exactly who the parents thought they should be. There was no regard for who these children actually were…
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Enough
A friend of mine posted on social media today that he’s having a hard time with this whole military retirement thing. Like he’s not sure if he’s done good enough as a commander and who is he without the military. This is the way most of us feel when it’s the end of our time…
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Deep thoughts
I’m still thinking about Oppenheimer deep in my brain. It was so intense and there were some parts that I understood so deep in my soul. There were things that scared me and made me feel better and made me wish I was still in the military, even though I was over it by the…
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Another departure
My awesome barber/hair stylist and friend is leaving the area. It wasn’t what I wanted to hear. She recommended another person but…it’s not the same. I feel myself wanting to pull away and just let go completely. I don’t want to say goodbye. I don’t want to learn someone else. It’s hard not to feel…
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The day money made me angry
After my great success with doing my own VA claim, I decided to help out the squatter with theirs. It took me a long time, but I still worked hard. I went through the exact same process I did for mine: multiple and thorough reviews of the medical file, multiple lists of what I found,…
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Daily Prompt 8/11/23
No. And you can’t make me! But seriously, I have lived my entire life with an internalized emergency preparedness plan. I doubt very much that most people are always looking for a way out of situations like I was. When I was in first grade, someone shot at our bus with a BB gun. They…
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Girl
Girl had a breakdown last night. We haven’t started school yet and are slowly working back to the normal timing for when school does start in two weeks. We are all staying up too late and it’s wearing us all down. I was running behind last night and taking out my contacts as the last…
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Daily Prompt 8/3/23
It’s not a physical thing, but more a mental thing I try to tell myself daily, but especially when I feel insecure or unsure about myself. “I am walking my own path in my own time and my own way. I am not in competition with anyone but myself.” I made myself unhappy for years…
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Daily Prompt 8/2/23
I want people to see me as a real person with a huge struggle to reconcile how I was born with who I really am on the inside. I have lived a very performative life as the person I was expected to me, while suppressing everything real about me. I appeared to have no personality,…