Tag Archives: mental-health
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Mental Health Days – What Helps
02/18/2018 by syrbal-labrys
Here I am in the public confessional again. I’d like to take a blithe tone of denial and say that …
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What IF….
02/15/2018 by syrbal-labrys
The official GOP line, in the wake of another bloody pile of bullet-ridden young bodies, is that it is “…Not …
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Melancholy Monday: Talking to Relatives/Friends With Mental Illness
02/05/2018 by syrbal-labrys
I live in a house with more people suffering PTSD than people who do not suffer PTSD. I grew up …
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Truthy Tuesday
05/09/2017 by syrbal-labrys
Yes, I love Stephen Colbert. But no, this post is not about him. I’ve been struggling since mid-April after a …
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100 Days, 100 Ways…
04/29/2017 by syrbal-labrys
No, I promise I will NOT post 100 links about how/why to resist President Agent Orange even though it would …
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Petitions I Do Not Sign – Omnipotence Not Just For God Anymore
609/14/2014 by syrbal-labrys
I am going to piss off some feminists, ok? And no fuck will be given when I do, either. Here …
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Spin On A Sunday – A Carousel in Omelas*
1104/27/2014 by syrbal-labrys
Immanuel Kant, one of my favorite and most intractably Prussian sort of philosophers, did not agree utterly with the materialist …
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Tuesday Trauma Triggers
Leave a comment04/16/2014 by syrbal-labrys
(Sorry for late posting — auto-post didn’t work as planned)I didn’t sleep last night, I lay awake listening to the …
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PTSD Journals: On Second Thought – Misconceptions
1703/26/2014 by syrbal-labrys
The Minotaur and I were talking recently, about some of the subtler effects of PTSD and how one can slide …
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PTSD Journaling – Time Machine
103/24/2014 by syrbal-labrys
It dawned on me this weekend, reading the tales of ptsd affecting entire families and feeling myself flash backwards in …
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Angst Is Not Enough
201/27/2014 by syrbal-labrys
I came from a family of extremes. My mother suffered some sort of major depressive issues — in fairness, those …
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Happy New Year’s From Us Peasants! Or, Dieting With Jack
612/31/2013 by syrbal-labrys
Ok, no, I am generally not a fan of “Dr. Phil” —he makes me gag most of the time. But …
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Random Thoughts On Where We “Battle” Depression
1012/24/2013 by syrbal-labrys
I remember reading “Brave New World” and feeling my entire face twinge when any “alpha” or “beta” had a rough …
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