I’m taking this opportunity of mental clarity to congratulate myself. Last night while lying in what I thought was a state of unsleepiness, I didn’t get out of bed and vomit all of my feelings onto the internet. I KNOW. In that purgatory land between Awake and Sleep, my tired brain thought that Sleep would [...]
Aside from the whole living-with-anxiety deal I have going on, I’m more of an optimist than a pessimist. That’s why I look at all the positives that come with the big fat negative of being sick with a sinus infection. Keeping up on the latest innovations in tissues. Getting to take naps without feeling guilty. [...]
Looking at my life, nothing. I have nothing to be depressed about, yet there it is. Angie, you suck. Oh, yeah. That. For the first time, I see it there. I recognize it lying to me. My inner monologue that tells me I suck. The me who isn’t me that tells me I’m unloved. It [...]
If you’ve got an extra special Case of the Mondays today, you’re not alone. According to research done by a British psychologist, Cliff Arnall, as reported in The Daily Beast, the third Monday of January is the most depressing day of the entire year: We’re so blue, Arnall says, because of the weather, the Christmas [...]
You know that 2-3 seconds after you flush the toilet when you realize it’s not flushing your deposit as it should and your brain races to find the plunger you hope is right next to the toilet because you just can’t handle cleaning up a bathroom floor covered in poo water? If those are the [...]