Tag: Depression
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We need to talk about neurodivergent parents.
I’ve been struggling with parenting my own three ND kids over the school holidays. The sensory overwhelm, the meltdowns, the constant bickering and bargaining. The mess piling up at the confluence of carelessness and boredom, multiplied by every hour they’re inside. It’s hard being a parent when your kids are home all day, every day,…
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Navigating the Waste Land of Generational Trauma
A narrative review of It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn What are the roots that clutch, what branches growOut of this stony rubbish? Son of man,You cannot say, or guess, for you know onlyA heap of broken images, where the sun beats,And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,And the…
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What Makes Good Days Good?
What makes a good day good? I just realized I don’t actually know how to answer this question. Let me back up a minute. I was just sitting down after lunch and I had a Vonnegut moment. I love Kurt Vonnegut. He’s an absolute fucking legend. Storyteller, philosopher, funny, flawed, fucking brilliant. I just adore…
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It’s not paranoia if the world really is ending.
6 productive things to do with your existential angst I grew up with the cold war and the nebulous but never quite absent threat of nuclear holocaust. It didn’t take too long out of the gate of the new millenium to replace the relative safetly of the 90s with the possibility of terrorist invasion. The…