Category: Personal Stories
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The Happy Chemicals Series Part 3: Serotonin
More Than Just Happiness When most people hear serotonin, they think of happiness. At least I did. When I heard serotonin, I thought of comfort, happiness, feeling good, and not much beyond that. It is often called the happy chemical online, in conversations about mental health, and even in casual jokes. But the more I…
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When Your Mind Lives in Worst-Case Scenarios
Introduction: Living Ahead of Reality Sometimes my mind starts preparing me for the anxiety, grief, or trauma of an event before life has even decided whether it’s actually coming or not. I’ve always known how exhausting that is. This experience was just another reminder of it. Side note before I start: although this blog was…
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I Got My 5 Years — Then Accidentally Overdosed
Don’t Worry — I Still Have My Clean Time (A lesson on Essential Vitamins) Five years sober.No alcohol. No drugs. And somehow… I still managed to “overdose.” Now this sounds very dramatic. I still have my clean time. It wasn’t an overdose as what probably comes to mind when you hear that. It was an…
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