Anxiety Climate Anxiety 6 Apr 2022 It's something I don't think anyone has ever seen in their lifetime. You've seen stories like it before. A headline will scream that "an asteroid the size of North Dakota…
Mental Health… OCPD, Whataboutism, and Professionalism 25 Mar 2022 One of my recent posts mentioned that I have struggled professionally because every time I investigate a field of interest and learn "how the sausage gets made" I become disgusted.…
Anxiety… One Death: How One Event Shaped My Anxiety and OCPD 21 Mar 2022 TW: death I feel like I learned the truth about death far too late in life, a combination of natural insulation from the subject and a consequence of my social…
Anxiety Parasocial Anxiety 7 Mar 2022 Parasocial relationships play an ever-increasing role in our world. Whereas these sorts of relationships have always existed to some degree, the advent of social media, which allows direct communication and…
Mental Health A Most Perfect Contradiction 31 Jan 20224 Feb 2022 Humans are contradictions. It's something that I find beautiful and frustrating (see how easy it can be?). We can hold two disparate beliefs sincerely at the exact same time, be…
Anxiety… Mental Health and Sexuality 9 Aug 20219 Aug 2021 We need to begin this post with a pure truth: definitions describe; they do not prescribe. Some definitions are by their nature comparative. For example, I could describe myself as…
Anxiety The Five (Unofficial) Levels of Panic Attack 5 Aug 2021 Not all panic attacks hit the same. I determined five distinct categories of panic attack that I use to relate my experience to those who are fortunate enough not to…
Mental Health & Pop Culture Let It Go: Disney’s Frozen and Mental Health 1 Jul 20212 Jul 2021 Disney released Frozen at an interesting time during my life. Having grown up a devout Disney fan, I knew every classic up through Lilo & Stitch like the back of…
Anxiety Anxiety: The Moving Target 24 Jun 202123 Jun 2021 TW: suicide The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-V) does a brilliant job, as it should, of casting a wide net with its diagnostic criteria. As…
Anxiety… My Mental Health Diagnoses 16 Jun 202115 Jun 2021 Today is a more clinical post. While this blog explores the nature of living with mental health issues on a personal, anecdotal level, I thought I would take one post…