Category: Wonderings
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SSRI withdrawal
Well, it was a shitshow. I took notes throughout as I knew my brain wouldn’t hold the information, so I thought I’d write something for other people doom-Googling wtf is wrong with their brain when coming off Citalopram. I first started on Citalopram at 19 after a very hard start at university, but I fell…
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I moved to an island to disappear
When I was about 14 years old, a group of girls cornered me in an empty changing room after school. It took my neurodivergent ass decades to realise I was being bullied, which is probably a useful defence mechanism. Similarly, something the ringleader said to me has only become clear in the last couple of…
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I just invented hydration
Oh no, I’ve become a water evangelist. It turns out I’ve been so chronically dehydrated, probably since I was WEANED in all honesty, that beginning to drink the bare minimum at 35 has actually changed my life. I’m very competitive with myself and a lot of my life revolves around trying to improve on my…
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The genuine article
I’ve lived on the Isle of Wight for two and a half years. Today, I finally got treated like a regular. I walked into the charity shop and straight to the back where the linen is kept, because I’d been in the day before so there wasn’t going to be much new in the racks.…
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Once Upon a Time at Bennington College
I’m listening to The Shards, written and narrated by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho. He only published it last year, a long time after his most famous novel, the only book I’ve ever had to close my eyes for. The Shards is a fake autobiographical coming-of-age-in-LA story. I found the introduction so convincing…
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