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other natural phenomena
Everything was orange. The entire night glowed with the light from the street lights. The shadows were long and opaque stretching over the concrete sea across from the football stadium. It was if we were the only car in the parking lot. Yet, we were surrounded by dingy Civics and hatchbacks stuffed, to their torn headliners, of personal belongings - backpacks, plastic bins for organization, homework. The seats inside her all black 2002 Toyota Tocoma were grey with little blue and red pinstripes. There was nothing particularly flashy about the little truck. It had four doors, all worked accordingly. The seats were used but not torn or dirty - except for the cigarette hole in the passenger-side backseat. I am still unsure how it got there, whatever memory responsible for creating that blemish had been forgotten since I had entered her world. We both shared the front-right seat. Half cuddling, half crammed between the opposing armrests, the window, the center console, and the glovebox. This was not a space built for two people. Her head was nested in that little pocket between my arm, shoulder, and chest. In those moments we felt like the only people in the world. That moment felt eternal. Time was neither happening nor had happened. We simply sat there and endured.
By Cody Brock5 years ago in Psyche
Covid CHAOS-The Games Narcissists Play.
COVID-19 is a haven for narcissists and psychopaths to amp up the abuse at home. It is an opportunity for them to be menacing, abusive and to sabotage the career of the target, whilst disrupting the children and family and subjecting them to persistent chaos.
By Andrea B Wainer5 years ago in Psyche
My Friend, Dante.
I met Dante about three years ago, under the strangest of circumstances. You see, I was resting after a heart surgery - and Dante came into the recovery room. He was no doctor - he wasn’t even a hospital worker. He was simply walking by outside, when he saw me and was drawn to me. “There was something about you to begin with,” he would later go on to say. “Some sort of a power, or lack thereof, that I felt I needed to be there to witness. However long it takes.”
By Alex Barbu5 years ago in Psyche
Why We Should Eliminate Sociopathy From the Gene Pool
Eliminating sociopathy from the gene pool, now that is a concept. If we could rewrite the genes of a baby at conception, this idea could work. It is one way to treat genetic disabilities at any rate, and since I have 22q, Velocardiofacial syndrome, it is a way to treat this disorder that researchers at major clinics like Stanford are working on. Narcissism or sociopathic spectrum mental illness is not always something that you are born with but rather it is something that a person can develop due to something that happens at the age of 2 or 3, due to parenting styles.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez5 years ago in Psyche
3 years sober
I’m 3 years sober today. This isn’t what I pictured my life would be like 3.5 years ago. I know that sounds like a pandemic gripe. That I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about how I miss performing, or hugging my grandma, or coffee dates with friends INSIDE coffee shops...or knowing I could travel anywhere at anytime if I had the money. I could continue with that list. And all of it would be true. But more truthful than that is I didn’t plan on being alive past 40, and that birthday is only 3 months away. That means I either wouldn’t have been alive to write this post, or I would’ve been clinging to deaths door, perhaps wishing my prediction wasn’t coming to fruition. Multiple trips to the hospital found me startling myself awake, hooked up to tubes and wires, wondering “really!? I made it through again? Why?” Never unscathed, but also never willing to change.
By Bradley Beahen5 years ago in Psyche
Chapter Nine - Sertamean
I hazily awaken from my constantly-interrupted slumber (every hour, on the hour, with a blazing hot torch shining in on my face to ensure that I am alive). It has now gotten to the point where I am getting very cranky – but not about anything to do with me.
By Ru Delacovias5 years ago in Psyche
Chapter Seven - I Started Zoloft Today
I am so sensitive to medication changes. Vomiting, nausea, derealisation, headaches, physical pain…each and every time a new scored pill enters my bloodstream, it is hell for weeks. I try to remind myself that the hell will end, or at least moderately subside. I swallow my tablets, and, as the nurse goes to take away both medication and drinking cups, I stop her in her tracks.
By Ru Delacovias5 years ago in Psyche
Chapter Four: Hospital Mum
Lucky is not a word I would usually use when in a psychiatric ward, but I really did hit the fucking jackpot with my new room mate. Lisa, a 40-something year old Mother of 3. Suicide attempt. Kidneys in a horrible state from said attempt.
By Ru Delacovias5 years ago in Psyche
