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“Self preservation is a full-time occupation.” – Ani DiFranco

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Recovery from depression has changed how I relate to people.

anxiety, career, change, depression, emotional baggage, emotional intelligence, exhaustion, fatigue, future, hiding, jerk brain, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perfectionism, perspective, pretending, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, self image, self-care, self-regulation, therapy, toxic positivity, wellness

The unknown

Getting better at living with uncertainty.

advice, anxiety, change, covid19, creativity, depression, emotional baggage, emotional intelligence, fatigue, fear, future, job, leadership, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perspective, philosophy, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, self-care, self-regulation, therapy, wellness, wisdom, work

Tired

Life is exhausting right now. There is still hope.

anger, anxiety, change, covid19, depression, exhaustion, fatigue, fear, future, jerk brain, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perspective, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, rest, self-care, self-regulation, social distancing, therapy, wellness, what to say

Regulate

I seem very eager to judge myself for how and what I feel. What’s up with that?

anxiety, depression, emotional baggage, literature, mental health, OCD, phd, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, research, self image, self-regulation, therapy

Asynchronicity

I’m living in this odd space between feeling well and balanced and feeling anxious and fractured.

depression, emotional intelligence, self image, self-regulation

Surge protectors exist for a reason

Tapering off of medication means that I’m experiencing emotion in a way I haven’t in a long time. It’s bumpy. I wish there was some kind of thing I could just plug in to smooth it out. Spoiler alert: It isn’t that simple.

anxiety, depression, emotional intelligence, medication, mental health, self-regulation

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