Category: Mental Health
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Domestic Violence by the Numbers Reported As Of This Year (2026)
What Decades of Data Are Telling Us—and the Anomaly of COVID October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and for the rest of this month I want to talk about domestic violence from a few different angles—what the numbers show us, how abuse has changed over time, why so much of it is never reported, why…
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ADHD: The Things I Laughed Off Until They Weren’t Funny Anymore
More Than Just Being Distracted Somehow, we flew through September and made it to October. October is both ADHD Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I’ll be talking mostly about domestic violence this month, but I’m starting with ADHD because it’s something I didn’t understand for a very long time—even after I was diagnosed.…
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Recovery Is Not Just About Not Using — And Getting Sober Doesn’t Make You a Good Person
Content Warning: This article discusses addiction, recovery, trauma, withdrawal, abuse, and relationships affected by substance use. Please read with care. 💜 “Our liquor was but a symptom. So we had to get down to causes and conditions.”– Alcoholics Anonymous Getting sober is hard. Really fucking hard. Depending on the substance, it can mean withdrawal, cravings,…
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Hypervigilance, Trauma, and Addiction: When Your Body Never Feels Safe
Content Warning: This article discusses trauma, addiction, substance use, withdrawal, relapse, abuse, and mental health. Please read with care. 💜 Since September is National Recovery Month, I have been thinking about the pieces of addiction we do not discuss nearly enough. We talk about the substance, sobriety, relapse, and consequences—but not always what someone may…
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Trying to Earn Today Without Giving Up What I’m Building
I have been writing a different piece, but I have been incredibly hesitant to release it for many reasons. My gut is telling me to wait, and I need to listen. I am not even sure I have worded it in a way that truly encompasses what I am trying to say, so I will…
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