Anxiety

Falling Out Of Love With The Book (It Happened To Me)

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025

This happened to me. After being an enthusiastic reader my whole life, I stopped being able to read. The book became an alien in my brain.

Body & Sex

Notes From The Newly Diagnosed – Depressed & Anxious

April 11, 2024April 21, 2024

4 Comments

I was diagnosed. I’m still the same person. Or am I? I have new words. And as I lose the ones that were longtime mine, I grasp them to cope.

Lizzybeth1986 on Falling Out Of Love With The Book (It Happened To Me): “I sometimes wonder if this is what some called “book fatigue” – or, like you said, the dehabilitating effects of…”
IdeaSmith on The Indian Man: A Doll That Goes “Mama”: “@TheShySaggittarian: Thank you for this comment. It takes a lot of courage and even more generosity to share such a…”
IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: Going Fishing: “@LizzyBeth: I do hope so. Gopal’s comments on my pictures were that I have the stories, I just need to…”
IdeaSmith on Food & Gender Politics in Asia: BUTTER – Asako Yuzuki, CHHAUNK – Abhijit Banerjee, PERFECT MATCH (Netflix): “@LizzyBeth: I’m glad you did! Curating the consumption experience this way (food, audio, screen, music etc.) takes the conversation forward,…”
TheShySagittarian on The Indian Man: A Doll That Goes “Mama”: “@theidea-smithy I accidentally came across this, and it resonated deeply because I’ve experienced something similar. I was once married to…”
Lizzybeth1986 on The Feels This Week: Going Fishing: “I love these shots you took so much, and I think one of the reasons why is because a lot…”
Lizzybeth1986 on Food & Gender Politics in Asia: BUTTER – Asako Yuzuki, CHHAUNK – Abhijit Banerjee, PERFECT MATCH (Netflix): “Loved this post! I do love deep dives into food writing that explore it not as just a site of…”
IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: Going Fishing: “@Gopal: Thank you so much and for visiting my blog again too! It’s a lovely throwback to the days when…”
Gopal on The Feels This Week: Going Fishing: “The images look lovely on the blog. The mobile screen was too small. ”
IdeaSmith on How We Treat People Is How We’re Feeling Inside: “@ideafan: I don’t think boundaries are supposed to feel transactional or timed. But a lot of people do it that…”

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