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I am so sorry you are going through this. I hope you will find a solution.

I am so sorry to hear your trouble. At time like this for me, I try to remind myself "now" is not forever. Please be kind and gentle with yourself and take care.

I just finished "Inverse Cowgirl" by Alicia Roth Weigel. I came away a bit disappointed with the memoir of her life as an intersex advocate and political organiser. I felt I learned the facts of her life without really seeing it and feeling it from her perspective. A bit like reading an extended...

I cleaned out our wood burner and scattered the cold ash under our trees.

I don't think any dating website filters out dangerous people! Sadly delusions and obsessions about love and relationships are so common, even in nondisabled, mentally "healthy" people. So sorry you are going through this.

I am trying to understand something, I go in circles. Most of the time I am checked out, can't focus, ruminating. Like right now - feeling confused and trying to understand something. Then sometimes the world feels unreal, there's something evil just behind everything, I am glimpsing something I...

Hi, as a trans person I also chose a name for myself. The name you have chosen for yourself is truly your name. You don't owe anyone explanations or apologies. I think everyone should choose their own name!

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I saw Meloe tuccius - the Common Oil Beetle. It's huge, the size of my thumb. Don't pick up this little monster! It squirts orange acid out of its knee and neck joints.

I thought of keeping shrimp but got put off by the worry of runaway population growth. I decided to keep celestial pearl danios. To my surprise, they bred too!

I made a meme! Trying to find the funny side in all this...

It seems I have this. Classically my parents were loving but unsafe. I don't think I have felt friendship or love my entire life. I just feel really bleak. I know it will never change.

While out walking my dog at night, we stumbled on three wild boars. They snorted in Fright and stampeded off. I was frightened they would see my dog and get aggressive.

I don't try to organize or sort the shopping list, I find it very hard to be that organized. One thing I do right is accept I am going to wander back and forth getting items in a random way, and I somehow don't shame myself for that. It's just walking.

I am really struggling with supermarkets. My partner has agoraphobia so I often go to the supermarket alone, armed with a shopping list. I struggle to read the list in the supermarket, forgetting what I have and haven't got - I stand frozen in an aisle like an idiot reading and re-reading the...

Devil's Coach-Horse Beetle. I knew it was an insect but it was throwing scorpion shapes!

I wish my mom and I talked together about our mental health struggles, rather than each of us suffering in silence. The closest we ever came to talking was sharing a psychiatrist!

Yes @saffronstuffie it's like that for me, but sometimes the "thing" has been front of me and I have definitely psychically seen it (it's hard to describe). At other times I have seen nice angels who were kind to me. The experiences are so real ordinary life seems unreal, and I also have...

I find telling myself I am having an emotional flashbacks helps. My feelings are not "the truth", it's a flashback. Also accepting those are feelings I couldn't even acknowledge at the time, so I can make some space for them now. The anniversary is a hard time for you. Maybe accepting that...

Crickets and millipedes.

If I say too much in therapy I can spend the following days crying or worrying that my T is angry with me. But after that it is easier for me to talk about that stuff. I use BetterHelp where I keep a journal which I share with my T. I write about everything, including my reactions to therapy.

I've seen them before, but today was the first time I've known I was seeing a spotted firebug. I learned on wikipedia that they may be the sex champions of the natural world. Their coital joining can last up to seven days!

I was watching the enormous violet carpenter bees mobbing my herbs.

I just focus on breaking down things not into lots of little steps but into just one little next step - I don't try to plan doing the whole thing, but just the next little part I can do

I feel I am taking my life in my hands when I take big pills like paracetamol. I've choked so many times. Mostly I'll just put up with the headache.