Category: Getting Unstuck

Inspiring Internal Focus

There’s a recent TV commercial (a not very effective one, because I cannot recall what they were selling) where the people start talking over each other in random gibberish, and then we learn it’s “search engine overload”. It struck me as a fairly good representation of what it’s like inside the dissociative head, especially prior …

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The "Routine" of Distractions

At what point does what you do routinely turn into a distraction? Everything that interests me, I look at with a “dry sponge meet drip” mentality. No drop left behind. I want to know it all, whether it’s about the economy, the stock market, multiplicity, book marketing, the Red Sox, diabetes, cats, weight loss surgery, …

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Triggers Inform You

Many abuse survivors are hyper-sensitive to things that remind them — or trigger a response in them — of a danger or grievous wrong that happened long ago. It feels fresh, though. It may appear quite innocently, as in a song not heard in years, or a certain smell from the kitchen or someone’s perfume. …

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It's the Diabetes, Stupid

I gave up trying to lose weight years ago. There are so many issues from childhood that go directly to why I gained weight, and why I tenaciously hang onto it. I grew weary of fighting with myself (and me and I) about it. A year ago, I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia, …

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The More Things Change

Probably my biggest character flaw is that I procrastinate things to my detriment, and for no easily ascertained good reason. That was the case with my physical health for many years. Now I get to play catch up with it. It also happens every year at tax time. (We never owe money, so you’d think …

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