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Choosing ‘The Funny’ While Managing Anxiety

On By Cait (like cat) GordonIn Health, Spoonie challenges, This blog's posts, WritingLeave a comment

It’s amazing to me how people who deal with mental illness can be stigmatized as being weak, ’cause I’m like, Really? Really, doods? Do you actually have the teensiest clue what it’s like?  I manage OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) impulses and anxiety. It wasn’t enough for me to have chronic neuropathy throughout my body. I wanted a mental …

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Insecurity, Thy Name is Writer

On By Cait (like cat) GordonIn This blog's posts, Writing3 Comments

Boing, boing, boing! There goes my confidence as it bounces out the door. I assumed colossal bouts of insecurity would only happen during the writing of my first book and there was no need for me to repeat those feelings the second time round. Surely, I've learned so much from the previous experience, right? Wrong. And don't call me …

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