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So long LiveJournal!

For some reason I watched the entire Republican debate last night since it was on the Google homepage. I don't make it a habit of watching any Republican debates as I consider myself a relatively progressive person. My current vote would be for Bernie Sanders, as I believe Hillary Clinton is a bit to centrist for my taste ( Read more... )

In the movie Inception, the idea could be placed into one's mind through dreams, and one would wake up and do something about it. The other night I had a dream that my health was slowly withering away and my physical weakness was magnified, even when I woke up. Have I done anything about it? The obvious answer is no, because I am stubborn and ( Read more... )

It has been 7 days since I've taken any form of anti-depressant. The first one I stopped weeks ago because of the pharmaceutical documentary I saw that specifically mentioned the medication that I was using was one of the most unethically overly-prescribed medication. The other one is one because my doctor's office is taking forever to refill, and ( Read more... )

Managing people is hard. Even when I try to think of all the managerial tactics that worked on me in my years of work experience, I just can't quite get everything to run perfectly. Part of me thinks that it's absurd to expect for everyone to do exactly what I want them to do. Also I can be quite self-centered in thinking that something that would ( Read more... )

A documentary about the unethical practices of pharmaceutical companies made me stop taking one of my medications. It specifically mentioned seroquel as one of the drugs that doctor's frequently prescribe hastily. Seroquel is supposed to be for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and my psychiatrist prescribed it as a mood stabilizer. For the last ( Read more... )

There used to be a time where I would keep throwing pity parties, in hopes people would notice me and try to console me in some way. My low self-esteem needed constant stroking in order to survive from one day to the next. It was as though I was waiting for someone to save me from my life ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was thinking that I should be updating more, but lately I have had an extreme case of writer's block ( Read more... )

Last night we went to see Beauty and the Beast. It was the first time I had seen the entire movie in its entirety, and I know it's a children's movie, but there are a few things that bothered me about it ( Read more... )

In my last post I have a list of 9 resolutions I wanted to accomplish. After a little less than two weeks into the year, I have only diligently followed two of the nine, which is to read at least 30 minutes a day and to not work past 7:30PM. Those two are probably the two easiest ones in the list ( Read more... )