Tag: mental-health
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Not for Nothing
Trigger warning: This post contains discussions of suicide and other tender things. This is also going to be a bit long…consider yourself warned 😉 I spent my 16th birthday in a mental hospital for trying to kill myself. It was not the first time. It was not the last time. Since I am writing this,…
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Message in a bottle
I did not write the main content of this. I hope I honor the person who did by making it public. I want them to be seen.
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Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
Yesterday I was talking with some friends and we were talking about how there is a place shortly before making actual changes that most of us want the consequences of our behavior to change but we don’t actually want to change. For example, most addicts want to stop going to jail, most alcholics want to…
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Sex, Love and Relationships (Part 5): What is love anyway?
I was talking to a boyfriend once a very long ago and he asked me how many men I had loved. Now, let’s be clear, he wasn’t asking how many men I had slept with, he was asking how many men I had felt love for. I don’t recall the number I gave him but…
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To love deeply…if not well
In my 20s, I loved a man in the way only the young love: with every ounce of my being and with a wee bit of crazy. I lived for him. I would have died for him or killed for him. And I knew he loved me. We were young and he was a guy…
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Oh the feelings!
Yes, sure I am an alcoholic and a drug addict. I have also been diagnosed with depression and bipolar (although when I was diagnosed bipolar, it was still called manic-depressive so that may say something). I have two parents that both had problems with alcohol: neither of them ever did anything to recover from it,…
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Me?!
A while back, like maybe 16 or 17 years ago, I was at work and a co-worker was talking to me about his life and asking for my advice. Part way through the conversation, I asked him why he was asking for my advice. I couldn’t conceive of why he would want any of my…
