Tag: Mental Health
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Daily Prompt 9/27/24
The trait I value most about myself is my charisma, or my rizz as my gen z/a kids hate me saying. It’s taken me my entire adult life to even realize and acknowledge that I have charisma. I have thought for a long time that I am introvert and need to be alone and away…
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Dear Dad, take 3? 4? 5000?
I have spent so much time in therapy working through some really complex feelings about my father. I have spent even more time processing the various interactions we’ve had throughout my adult life and just how toxic he is towards me. It’s been a long, painful road. Lately I keep seeing social media crap about…
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Disappointment
One of the greatest joys in life for me is concerts. I love music and live music is the absolute best part of music. And that live music doesn’t even need to be concerts. I enjoy any kind of live music, even people singing at festivals, first Fridays, etc. There is not much in life…
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Growth
I’ve been in therapy continuously for almost 4 years straight. It will be 4 years in January. I did some therapy online and with a military therapist on base prior to starting for real in January 2021. For me, I wanted to change things once I was retired because I could. I no longer had…
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Becoming Zander FOR REAL
I have been gone for a long time. I was stuck in my own head and in my own healing. I have been doing therapy every other week this entire time and really taking a hard look at my life, who is in it, and what changes I need to make to be my best…
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Thinking about the past
There was a neighbor kid I played with for 4 years or so. He was a little bit older than me, maybe like 5-7 years older. I don’t really remember how old he was, just that he seemed way older than me. When I was really small, I thought he was fun. He knew a…
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Daily Prompt 7/23/24
I have not kept the tradition of abuse and the silencing/dismissal of children as inhuman and incapable of reasonable thought. Looking back, I can see that this is the thread of my upbringing that I have needed to pull for years. This is something that has never disappeared and they both continue to treat me…
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Daily Prompt 7/22/24
For me, yes. But only in that every day for me is untypical. No two days are ever the same so it’s always a bizarre variety or experiences and things that make little to no sense, but in the best way possible. I like my day like that, although I do try to have some…
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Healing
The blockage is still there inside me. I am not sure why or what it relates to, but I am starting to feel that there is a trauma that is unacknowledged, unspoken, and definitely in my way. It’s taking away everything I enjoy like writing, and even the optional lacrosse practices that I committed to…
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Daily Prompt 6/27/24
This is one of the more funny prompts I’ve seen. What I consider myself an authority on may not be ANYTHING that other people would consider me an authority on. I bet there are also a lot of people who are not self-aware enough to realize that they are not experts on anything who think…