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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Nah, fuck all that. I’ve stopped following most mainstream news and my mental health has improved significantly for it. Having a neverending sense of anxiety and impending doom 24/7 is no way to live, and it seems as if that’s exactly the effect that major news outlets are trying to have. It hasn’t fixed my anxiety but it’s a huge improvement not having it constantly exacerbated day after day.

    If you had to take a break from that bullshit to avoid going completely insane, then good on you for taking care of your mental health, and believe me that is not a valid reason for you to be respected less.












  • Being intelligent and aware of everything and then having that intelligence slowly taken away from you, feeling your mental capacity diminishing day by day while still having the awareness that it’s happening, it’s pretty heavy stuff. It really brings to mind my grandmother’s decline after she got Alzheimer’s, she was slowly losing herself and for a long time she knew it was happening and it was painful to watch, not to mention how brutal it must have been to experience it.

    Flowers for Algernon is an amazing story, but it hits pretty hard after watching it in real life.