My body is sore, I’m tired, irritable, ravenously snackish, grumpy, emotional, defensive, and it feels like everything is conspiring against me. The sensations aren’t entirely new, but they’ve been happening more and more often, almost every month at this point. And each time it feels like my world is unravelling around me. Like all my…
Tag: mental health
Wanting
Sometimes I get these really strong desires for a copious amount of chill, no-strings-attached sex. I hyper fixate on it, thinking it’s all I need for days at a time. It would be easy then to hop in a car with some random boy and jerk off together, or suck each other off, then part…
Breaking The Anxious Avoidant Dance
When you’ve had to operate emotionally at a 10 for so long, it’s hard accepting that you’re safe enough to relax and not operate in survival mode. I made a lot of really big mistakes last year while in an activated state that I really regret. Mistakes that almost cost me one of the most…
The 38-Year-Old Queer
In the past I’ve only done these posts every five years; first when I turned 30 and then again at 35. In both cases I reflected on difficult feelings about my identity and how bad my mental health always gets around my birthdays. It’s a trauma response for sure. After so many years of disappointment…
I Had No Future Until Now
Nobody said this was gonna be easy, but I didn’t think that it would be this hard either. I’m on a bunch of dating apps, matching with people here and there, but they’re all widely dead ends. Missed connections, conflicting schedules, drops in conversation, a lack of energy on both sides, it’s all contributed to…