Please note: this post deals with suicidal ideation. If you are not in a place to read about this topic, skip this one. I had an unsettling experience a few days ago. After ending my seven-month relationship and facing unemployment again as my current contract ends, I’d been feeling depressed. And although I’d finally started getting invited to interviews, all three possibilities that arose abruptly ended when the companies chose other candidates, and I was facing the anxiety of a potentially long stretch of unemployment again. I was sitting at the dining room table, entering information into a spreadsheet in preparation for writing a final report on my work, when I felt such a tectonic shift in my mental state that I felt physically unbalanced.
So powerfully articulated, Shelley. It looks like those deep grooves that have been etched in your brain over the years have started to soften. Your mind went briefly to that old place, but the groove wasn't deep enough for it to stay there. Here's to creating new neural pathways! You've made so much amazing progress! Don't forget it!.
So powerfully articulated, Shelley. It looks like those deep grooves that have been etched in your brain over the years have started to soften. Your mind went briefly to that old place, but the groove wasn't deep enough for it to stay there. Here's to creating new neural pathways! You've made so much amazing progress! Don't forget it!.