Depression Aware

Today, I had someone that doesn't typically give one iota of crap about how I feel or what's going on with me ask me, "Are you not happy with your life?".  I responded in the affirmative and this person said, "I don't really like you sad all of the time."  Of course, my first though, …

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Agitated and failed to pause

I'm not sure why it happens, but I relapsed again. I'm truly disappointed in myself. But, I failed to do one of the things that The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) recommends - "pause when agitated". I felt a complete breakdown this past Saturday night. I'd like to blame my wife, but my actions …

A Plague of Being

I think I had a bit of an epiphany last night about my sexuality. It hit me that I've been treating my sexuality as if there is something wrong with me. Even as much as I discuss it on here and on Twitter, it hit me yesterday that I have been treating it as if …

National Coming Out Day: 2018 Version

Last year, I wrote about National Coming Out Day, and needless to say there isn't a whole lot I have to say on the subject. In fact, I didn't even know it was this day, until I logged onto Twitter and found out in similar fashion as I mentioned happened in the post I just …

Insanity: Repetition without an iota of change.

The last few days have been filled with wild thoughts. I've discussed this before on a few different posts and have collectively tagged them with "circle" - feel free to look. I'm not really sure why this happens to me, but it is a vicious circle of complete insanity that I go through, where I …