self pity

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• clinging onto bottles

  
  Bad Tempered Zombie — Authority: 423
  Have you been stricken by the H1N1 yet? I ask because I am trying to determine if thats what I have, or if its just a regular illness. I have perused the handy Knowledge is Your Best Defence pamphlet issued with my tax dollars, and have drawn up some contingency plans. So if my skin turns bluish or grey, I ...
  1 day ago

• Sorrow’s Well

  
  Authspot — Authority: 574
  A moment’s lapse that’s caught by some attraction perhaps Thoughts in dreamy daylight sleeping sound amid the noise I awoke to find a hollowed grasp where once a fuller grip Did hold in keeping time; a firm and certain trusted ship How long the tarry; paused in frame of mind and body? Frozen aspirations thaw as ...
  1 week ago

• SOMETIMES LEAVE EM LAUGHING

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  A few years ago, a rather self indulgent patient of mine collapsed into a fashionable psychiatric hospital from which the staff kept me regularly posted on his progress. An eager young therapist called me each week from the hospital recounting fancied or forgotten traumas from the patients childhood, and how much the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A feel-good strategy that sticks

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  In my last blog entry, How self-esteem can get us down , I addressed how bolstering self-esteem can cause problems if it is not built on a solid foundation of self-worth. The next logical question is; what is a healthier, more effective way to feel good about yourself? Self-compassion is an essential part of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Attention Seeking

  
  Seaside Notes — Authority: 121
  We were all sitting around in the kitchen on Friday night: my sisters, a partner, my son, Mellie (who returned from New York that afternoon). They are all here for mums 70th (she had gone back to her hotel with her new man). I was carrying some empty glasses back to the sink when I encountered a patch of sticky air, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Perspective Schmerspective

  
  Sufferin' Succotash — Authority: 107
  It just doesnt ever slow down or let up. Nope. Last week D. and Stella both were really sick, probably the flu but they wouldnt know for sure, being uninsured and broke! In addition to one of my students having an emergency appendectomy, yesterday I was busy with another student having an emergency root canal. It ...
  3 weeks ago

• Upon A Cowardly Revenge

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 168
  If you were given another chance Would you perform the same And blow those bastards away? Would you have found the courage Not to put a symbolic phallus inside your mouth read more
  3 weeks ago

• The synchronicity of pants

  
  Kitschy Coo — Authority: 128
  Pants: Noun/Adj. Nonsense, rubbish, bad. From the standard British English of pants, meaning underwear; also a variation on knickers. E.g."The first half was pants but I stayed until the end and it was actually a great film." [1990s] Ive been feeling pants recently. Not physically, but ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Young Female Makes a Genuine Effort to Quit Drinking, Suffers From Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms, Comes to the Realization That She is an Alcohol Addicted Person, and Comes to a Decision to Obtain Alcohol Treatment

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  Jennifer is a thirty-nine-year-old benefits manager who has been consuming alcohol in an irresponsible and abusive manner since her boyfriend and she severed their relationship. In fact, for the past ten months she has been drinking almost one-and-a-half bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has ...
  4 weeks ago

• fevah Part II

  
  It's like I'm... mmmagic! — Authority: 482
  Oh, hi. I’m dying. Okay maybe not but *whatever the hell I’m battling, it’s currently kicking my ass. Like, if me and this sickness were in a boxing  ring, I’d be pinned to the mat yelling “SWEET MOTHER OF GOD, I GIVE UP, YOU WIN- TAKE EVERY SEASON OF THE WEST WING! TAKE MY VINTAGE WRANGLERS FROM THE ...
  4 weeks ago

• Discomfort with Focusing Attention on Yourself and Your Own Needs

  
  Blooming Lotus — Authority: 124
  A reader sent me an insightful email asking questions about whether other child abuse survivors feel uncomfortable with focusing on their own needs. My answer was a resounding YES! In fact, I would say that this is the norm for child abuse survivors. This reader really needs validation from other child abuse survivors ...
  4 weeks ago

• 5 Emotional Vampires and How to Combat Them

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 574
  In the spirit of Halloween, I thought you’d all appreciate some vampire talk. In her new book, “Emotional Freedom,” UCLA psychiatrist Judith Orloff identifies five kinds of vampires that are lurking around and can zap our energy if we’re not careful. Here is an excerpt adapted from her book. Emotional ...
  4 weeks ago

• Helen Keller quotes: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

  
  Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote — Authority: 130
  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. - Helen Keller Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist. On October 23rd, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Reasons Why Exercise are Dangerous

  
  13Months — Authority: 92
  As you know, Angie and I have been exercising with a trainer. She bartered her web design services for the training. Ill post a link to our trainers website when its finished. This morning I got up early to exercise before I came to work. Two things happened. As I was putting on my shoes I hurt my knee. I mean, ...
  5 weeks ago

• The post I dont feel like writing

  
  Kitschy Coo — Authority: 128
  My computer is back from the shop. First I needed a new motherboard, and then my hard drive died while in recovery. The man in shop said this happened after most (most being a nebulous term) of my files had been migrated to their backup system. As I handed over the GDP of a small nation, assurances were made that ...
  5 weeks ago

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