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Tag: anxiety

  • January 2026 Progress Report

    Things are. . . . frustrating, right now. Part of it stems from my own lack of discipline to keep to a writing schedule. Part of that is I HAVE TO constantly use the “writing time” for things that absolutely cannot wait, like doctors appointments for the kids or job interviews or whatever. The majority…

  • Mental Health Wednesday January 2026

    This winter break was . . . A thing. A whole thing. Not a fun thing, either. Like an overly complicated thing that no matter how you try to fix it, it’s just going to continue to make your life difficult, but you can’t throw it away, because it is required, for some reason. It…

  • Mental Health Wednesday December 2025

    This has been a rough year for me. And my family, too, but this blog is about me, so let’s just focus on that. There have been a number of doctor appointments, a couple-three work problems, a layoff, a few other disappointments and scares. All of which ticked my anxiety a little higher, with each…

  • Mental Health Wednesday November 2025 (2)

    It wasn’t that long ago that I could speed read a book and catch even the smallest details. Now, I have to slowly read a paragraph, several times, often whispering the words so I also hear what I’m reading, to grasp the message and details. It’s a struggle to read a whole paragraph sometimes. My…

  • Mental Health Wednesday November 2025

    *This accidentally went out on October 30. Doh! Sometimes things in the head just break. I get too stressed out, and *snap*. Malfunction. The first time was a surprise. For the decades that I have persistently dealt with depression, I’d always considered it moderate with occasional bad spikes. I thought I held it together pretty…

  • Mental Health Wednesday October 2025

    I’m going to try and start dating these things in the title. I should’ve a while back, but, you know. Effort. Anyhooo… September was stressful. More than it had any right to be, thank you very much. So much so it brought up fun other potential side effects of mental illness. Physical Manifestation. No, this…