mental health

For a short period of time in my teenage years, my mind blocked out memories made within a nine-to-12-month period. I was unable to recall a hospitalization, a car crash, or what author John Green calls “the night feeling” in his collection The Anthropocene Reviewed — an overwhelming sense of dread that flooded my mind and body until I awoke the next morning.

An Afternoon Can Last Forever Today I cannot leave the couch, gaze fixated on a screen. Weigh this illness against that one, take another test. A brain...

A comic review of Let Me Count the Ways

On a Middle-Aged Birthday The worlds beginto thin now.So much that Iam not disturbedwhen I spill intoa life I leftlong ago. I buycheap coffeefor home,...

Grief Grief as knees buckling when given the news I already knew or grief as a foreign country or grief as the ball I stuff...

survivor’s guilt Does x imitate y? x | y x = I smoke microchips. To catch a ride to myself; to tune the healing frequency. y = The...