Had a heating pad on my back since I got home at 4. My lower back has been spasming since 10:30 or so this morning ( Read more... )

I hate winter so much. It's not even the snow, it's that even though I expect it, I'm still hit with a dip in mood and overall mental health. I've lived with this long enough to recognize that I'm constantly worrying that I'll die in a car crash, or fire, or walking down the street, and that the inability to get up in the morning means that I'm ( Read more... )

Ok, maybe slight exaggeration, but I absolutely hate that feeling. I refuse to get sick again, so this better just be because of cat hair ( Read more... )

There was a shooting in the Mall of Columbia with three dead and four in the hospital. My dad and I were trying to get there today for lunch, but ended up going to a place in Catonsville. I just hope that no one I know was there. My thoughts are with the family of the victims and others there.

Apparently MD was not prepared for the snow today. Work was closed, but whenever that happens, the rehab counselors get assigned to go to different group houses to work during the day. Getting there was fine because it hadn't started snowing yet, but at the end of my shift, I took two of the clients out to the CVS to get cigarettes and coffee and ( Read more... )

IIIIIIII do not want to go to work tomorrow. I need a mental health day before February, I think, but I don't want to use up my paid leave, since we have to use that on holidays like New Year's Day as well (which is ridiculously stupid, but at least we get a good amount of hours added to our leave every pay period). But I think if I have to wait ( Read more... )

Slightly amusing that after I post how well work has been going, I then experience one of the craziest days. On Monday, four of us (one was out on holiday) were cleaning up various bodily expulsions from around 9 AM to 1 PM. I have a deal with another coworker (H) that I don't clean up poop and she doesn't clean up vomit, so I was off the hook ( Read more... )

In the last several weeks, I've found an Ozil jersey from last season, a Raul jersey from 2007-2008, and a really nifty RM shirt. Good haul, Em, good haul ( Read more... )

I forgot that I hadn't posted it here, but I have a job! And it's even in my field! I now work for Mosaic Community Services, a non-profit specializing in mental health and addiction. I'm a psychiatric rehabilitation counselor (not a therapist, so I don't have to be licensed), running groups and managing a case load of 18 people. My big job is ( Read more... )

I'm having a really rough time getting off one of my anti-depressants. I was slowly weaned off over six weeks, but when I stopped, I suddenly was so dizzy, constantly, every day, to the point where I can feel it in my teeth and that doesn't even make sense. It comes in waves, pretty much in time with my pulse, so I guess it's like that because ( Read more... )