Category Archives: Mental Health

Finally Getting Divorced From The Person Who Abused Me And My Kids So She’s Had Me Charged With Assault

In November of 2024 I started filing for divorce against my ‘soon to be ex-wife’ (STBEW) — we’ve been separated since 2015, after our local chapter of Children’s Aid Services (CAS) threatened to put my children — then 5-years old, … Continue reading

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My Biological Father Has Died… There Are No More Chances

“When I was a child my father believed he was a great man who was in the middle of a great revolution, and things get sacrificed during revolutions. Like family. Or maybe — as he tells the story now — … Continue reading

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Well That Was An Entirely Too Interesting Few Months

Way back in April, my right leg started hurting and it was definitely swollen, that was on a Sunday. The pain got pretty intense over the next few days, aggravated even further by playing multiple boot-hockey games with my youngest … Continue reading

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Music Friday: “Pull Your Head Up Off The Floor, Come Up Screaming…”

I was thirteen when I first heard Stuart Adamson and Big Country on the radio. At that point the only music I had been exposed to were the folk songs and anti-government protest songs we had sung in the Cult … Continue reading

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Another Conversation With My Psychotherapist… Now With Less Mom Talk

The overarching theme for my past year in psychotherapy was my relationship with my mother… which seems not a little cliché, but it was something that needed to happen. We only discussed my mother for a few minutes this time. … Continue reading

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Conversations With My Psychiatrist | The End Is Nigh

I have two more appointments before my psychiatrist retires. This isn’t a surprise, she told me when we started three years ago that our relationship would be temporary. She also told me I wouldn’t be left out in the cold, … Continue reading

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