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Anxiety, media, self-care 

I don't know how to disconnect. I try watching media but I run out of that. 45 has made me yet again fearful about existence and how it might get me along with everyone else wiped out by two enormous narcissists.

I just started living.

the old teenage bicycle 

Brought my old bicycle into the shop, after years of neglect (most of them being not having enough money to get it fixed up). It's repairable, but... it's small and I'm bigger and we don't really match each other anymore. Repairable, but the guy at the shop recommended I donate it to a nonproft bike shop and let them fix it up for someone who needs it.

Surprisingly emotional about it, given that I've barely touched the bike in years.

She was a really good bike, though.

Kin stuff 

It has been a while but I've been chatting and spending more time with Otherkin folks. And now I wake up with phantom tail.

I saw a bunch of got cuties over on the birdsite. I still want to push that direction. Is there a place that will do like a goth makeover?

Mental health 

TFW you realize that your childhood gave you PTSD. "How to Cope With a Sense of a Foreshortened Future"
verywell.com/coping-with-a-for is something I have dealt with for a very long time and never had a word for it.

Psych meds 

Learn to read your own medications better yeen. Found out I’m on Buspar not Wellbutrin. My alcohol adventures are even less possibly related.

Anxiety, Alcohol 

Oh, that also might be because I forgot my pills yesterday night.

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Anxiety, Alcohol 

Yesterday, I learned that alcohol, especially socially, can shut off the anxiety part of my brain for a while.

Today, I learned that my anxiety part of my brain is trying to make up for that.

Therapy and Mortality 

Please keep responses to this light and more being supportive hugging and stuff as I'm still not super stable about this stuff.

Had my first therapy appointment dealing with my mortality anxiety. After lots of crying, found that it quite probably has a basis in how my parents ruined my childhood. Fun realizations.

I will see Fully Automated Luxury Space Queer Communism.

LB: Memes as viral marketing worked on me. In this case, to back a Patreon.

That certainly didn't help 

Anxiety meds are helping. I still get the twinge of an anxiety loop about something but they seem to end much quicker.

OTOH, I was wondering why I couldn't seen @indi's awoos and realized somehow that I'd muted him. Ugh. That certainly didn't help my mood.

Illness 

My mental illness of anxiety has been spiking and having human contact helps but right now that isn't happening.

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Illness 

You know what sucks. Being sick and wanting hugs and not able to get them.

Seattle locals 

I'm trying to make sure I stay around people so I don't get more lost in anxiety. Is anyone interested in having a hyena around this weekend? Or just know of things going on?

Anxiety update 

45 has made my anxiety worse. Drugs still ramping up. Some of the edge is off but I'm still a wreck. My roommate has been helpful too which is good.

Anxiety treatment 

My existential anxiety has been running rampant recently. Starting on Wellbutrin today and using my financial privilege to start personal training tomorrow. Hopefully this all helps.

Continued negative feelings 

Stuff myself face first into code to try and ignore the loneliness isn't working when I run face first into walls that I can't figure out how to get over either. I should probably eat.

lonely with radioactive negative feels. 

Finally, it just feels like I have no close friends. Those who I am somewhat close to seem to be on completely different schedules and such from me to the point where it is like they don't exist at all.

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