Tag: observations

  • 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…

  • WTF October 2025

    Okay, yes. I like to read my horoscope. Sometimes some good advice comes out of it, such as “consider the possibilities of an honest mess.” It gives one hope. Challenges your perspective. This one though: May not be the best advice for someone, like myself, who occasionally has a few impulse control and patience problems.

  • 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…

  • IWSG October 2025

    October 1 question – What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why? It’s October already? Guh. Wasn’t I still trying to process the summer to-do list stress last week? The to-do list that never made it to the got-done list? Like get my body into spooky-season shape? I’m pretty…

  • September 2025 Mental Health Wednesday

    The last few months have been rough for me, though I don’t know exactly why. I’ve been excessively fatigued, exceptionally spacey. I’ve gone through the usual suspects: diet, supplements, meds, menopause, recovering TBI, a basic downward spiral, even the beginnings of a cold (that irritating beginning, where you wonder if you’re getting sick, but your…