It feels like a lifetime ago, but it was only a little over a decade. I was super-active on LJ and friends with hundreds of people. And, as sometimes happens among groups of people, there was friction. Worse, I was careless with my words and passionate about 'my' people ( Read more... )

I am surrounded by grief ( Read more... )

I am so depressed I cannot think straight. I cannot put words together. I feel invisible. A text comes in, from my BFF. He has noticed I haven't been communicative, and just wanted to check-in. I feel seen. We talk for hours, and by the time we hang up, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel ( Read more... )

It's easy to make a resolution, to say you're going to change something. It's much harder to actually do it. I had resolved to go back to school, get my psychology degree, and become a therapist. I applied to and was accepted into my college of choice, and I was SO excited about the classes. Everything was going great ( Read more... )

I was diagnosed with fibro in the 90s, before I knew what WebMD was. When I did a search for it (on my then-much-beloved AOL account!) I got a few results. Nothing that really told me what it was, or how much it would destroy my life ( Read more... )