I was driving the kids back from school the other day and my youngest requested we listen to this song from The Croods A New Age (she loves Jack Black, particularly Time Warp and Peaches). As the chorus came around, and I endured the nine millionth rendition of this song,…
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I’ve been unemployed since February, when, like thousands of others in the tech industry recently, I was laid off. I was granted a really big severance package. Like, super generous. You hear talk of people who get royally screwed by their company (who undoubtedly called them “a family” before mercilessly…
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I was first friends with P back in 2006. We were young and spent many drunken evenings and smoke breaks at work talking about anything and everything, and it wasn’t long before P introduced me to her boyfriend D. They’d been together for years already, and it was obvious they…
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Let me take you on a weird and personal—but hopefully enlightening—journey into my brain to reveal my innermost thoughts and try to explain how my anxiety manifests. How it triggers from the smallest most innocent seed until it wracks my every thought and consumes my every moment. I’ve briefly touched…
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Do a quick Google search for anxiety and libido and you’ll immediately find a ton of results explaining why anxiety reduces your sex drive, and that anxiety is a killer for the bedroom. Not for me. Maybe it’s because my wife and I haven’t had sex in about five years.…
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My wife and I have gone through some turbulent times. We’ve fought, we’ve drifted apart, we’ve said some nasty things to each other. I’m by no means innocent, and I’ve done things I’ve immensely regretted. I’m no saint. In fact, I’m far from it. I’ve done stuff which is pretty…
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TW: Suicide Ideation. I’m the type of person who is happy to consume any and all medication. If I have a headache, I’ll achingly head to the acetaminophen. In my world, aches and pains means ibuprofen. So when it came to managing my anxiety, it didn’t take long before I…
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I’ve had great mental health all my life. I’ve been fortunate to have never experienced ongoing anxiety or depression or anything resembling that growing up. Sure I’ve had moments of anxiety, like when I failed a year of university, but not ongoing, persistent, anxiety, where your thoughts are incessant and…
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I’ve been listening to a lot of Meat Loaf lately, which in turn has set me to thinking about an old physics teacher, and some lessons he’s still teaching me about authenticity 25 years later.
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