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Marijuana
Era tells me a story about her husband Will and marijuana. Will had difficulty sleeping. They went to a sleeping center in 2017 to try to figure out the problem in Edmonds, WA. He did a sleep study with all the wires and everything. They found that he does not go into the stage of deep sleep. It made him tired all the time. It was difficult to concentrate for Will on anything Era would tell him. Will was complaining again that he could not sleep. Their son told him; he will find a little marijuana to help him sleep better, more deeply. Will said ok, smoked some marijuana then he went unconscious.
By Gabriella Korosi4 years ago in Psyche
Suicide Is Not Painless!
It’s Tuesday evening and an elderly lady drives her car from the brand new assisted living flat she moved into a month ago, to a bridge over the fast flowing river that runs the length of the valley. She parks up and what exactly happens next we will never know.
By Alex Frederickson4 years ago in Psyche
Mirror...Mirror on the Wall
Mirror...Mirror on the Wall Who am I to write pieces on a subject like Vanity? Afterall, aren’t we told that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”? If that is true, then why are we bombarded with images of women that someone else thinks are beautiful?
By Acara Whitney4 years ago in Psyche
Everything We Do is Magick
ALONE IN A CROWD I don't remember exactly what age I became aware of the above understanding of the nature of existence. What I do remember are the looks, at least most of them, when I asked questions about such. The Age of Reason had extracted all (or so it was thought) of the mysticism from "science", but the advances of quantum physics have revealed that the mysticism and the hard science are inseparable. That there is something beyond our understanding that holds everything together....but, I'm getting ahead of myself.
By RavensCraft 94 years ago in Psyche
ADHD and Me
My Journey with ADHD People with atypical neurology often find themselves not knowing where they fit in society. From an early age, people with ADHD find themselves at odds with an educational system that forces them to sit down and focus for hours on end. Once a child gets home from school, they are expected to sit down and focus even longer on their homework. These tasks feel directly counter-intuitive to the way their mind works. For a child with ADHD, it can feel as though the institutions they must participate in are specifically designed to work against them; a round peg being forced into a square hole.
By Tyler Clark (they/he)4 years ago in Psyche
Meeting Real Self
I sit here tonight typing, thinking about those days, those painful drying out days. My head and body were numb and defeated. You see, I knew traumatic events, but nothing so profoundly personal and so deeply painful had ever happened to me as getting sober. I felt like the universe was abusing me at times.
By Jeff Johnson4 years ago in Psyche
