After years of worrying what everyone else thought, I made a surprising discovery: most people are too busy dealing with their own lives to pay much attention to mine. Oddly enough, that's one of the most freeing things I've ever learned.
Category: Mental Health
Self-Medication in the Wasteland
Long-term stress changes more than your emotions. It changes your body, your brain, and eventually your survival instincts. A reflection on narcissistic relationships, chronic cortisol exposure, PTSD, grief, and the dangerous comfort of self-medication.
Deprescribing
The growing political rhetoric around “deprescribing” psychiatric medications sounds reasonable until ideology begins replacing medical expertise. A former healthcare provider reflects on what holistic care actually means, why psychiatric medications matter, and why medical policy should remain grounded in evidence rather than political theater.
Grace in the Echo Chamber
Living alone amplifies thoughts. Trauma complicates reactions. PTSD explains but does not excuse. This is about accountability, judgment, and learning to give yourself grace instead of a life sentence.