Day After Day After Day

My husband and my therapist are both encouraging me to try and write something. My brain doesn't want to do it. Log dreams, my husband said this morning after I woke up from a particularly fraught dream. Log your moods, my therapist says, wanting me to remember that I have good days. I'm struggling. I don't find joy in anything. I'm having a hard time even putting these words in a row. I mark days by when I can next sleep. I mark weeks by Sundays...

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What Do You Say To "How Are You"?

I say "we're okay" or I say "Hanging in there." I ask "How about you?" and get more of the same. Because what can you say. Can you say "Me? I fantasize about how I could just kill myself if I had to, and I lie to my psychiatrist when she asks me if I have thoughts like that.  I have to keep my days simple, because any stress at all would trigger me to stay in bed, have fraught nightmares, or cry and have a panic attack. I can make it...

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Amy Winehouse died 9 years ago today

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Quarantine Thoughts: Everyone Is A Comedian

#QuarantineThoughts Michael Marotta It's weird that my cat doesn't know what Europe is. @vexedinthecity Is cereal, technically, considered a breakfast soup? Sean Drinkwater Are Burritos why we were put on this planet? Daniel Bernal I've had a few ambitions. I think I found a new one. I just want to grow up to be Christopher Walken-ish. Lamont Price Any time Fred Flinstone calls Barney "Barn" you know some shit's about TO GO...

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Tee Shirt: Allston Rat City

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There's Something About X (Clever Subtitle Here)

If I could write a book it would be about why members of Generation X are the way we are, and it would *be packaged like a Trapper Keeper. It would be a three-volume encyclopedia of X, and it might even have a coloring book in the back pocket. It would be called There's Something About X (Clever Subtitle Here), by the blogger known as Low Budget Superhero (@SuperLowBudge). In my book if I could write a book my thesis would prove that Generation...

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