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  • Our capitalistic society and its “American Dream” are based on survival of the fittest. As a person with a mental illness, I have a feeling where that would put me.

    Posted by aintnoatlas on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

    Read the first part here. We do with mental illnesses what we do with the impoverished and other groups, we avert our eyes and push them into the corner, stuck on the edges of our …

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  • What do we do, as a society, with people with mental illnesses?

    Posted by aintnoatlas on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

    This is an honest question. I know what we actually do–a lot of them are homeless and we avert our eyes when walking through big cities between expensive stops while on vacation or hurry past …

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  • “You never feel well.”

    Posted by aintnoatlas on November 24, 2019

    “She never feels well.” It’s defeating when somebody responds that way, because it’s true technically. Most of the time I really don’t feel well and that is abnormal. I get that and I agree. But …

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  • Not worthy of “human garbage.”

    Posted by aintnoatlas on October 13, 2019October 13, 2019

    I am lazy. I don’t want to put in the effort to enjoy things. I don’t enjoy things. I don’t want to put in the effort to think about things long enough to have feelings …

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  • When divorcing parents turn their kids into hostages, battlefields, and trophies.

    Posted by aintnoatlas on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019

    People don’t realize how destructive words can be when the intended pain is indirectly caused. Parents going through divorce do this a lot. My parents turned me into their own personal tennis court. Back and …

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  • Specks of gold perched on a blade.

    Posted by aintnoatlas on October 7, 2019October 7, 2019

    I peered through the bridge gate. It was a golden rose. Funny. You never see golden roses randomly. But there it was. A golden rose with the most graceful petals. I crouched down and tenderly …

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  • How do you get out of the rat race?

    Posted by aintnoatlas on October 1, 2019

    It seems the closer I got to 30, the more everything started to feel like a “rat race.” The dating and marrying scene. Having babies. Jobs. Education. Everybody is ahead of you and the people …

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  • 30 Going on 13.

    Posted by aintnoatlas on September 3, 2019September 2, 2019

    I can’t get out of my own head when I want to write sometimes. The teacher’s pet in me feels this compulsive need to appeal to somebody else, to sound smarter than I am, to …

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  • Medications for mental illness are a preferable disadvantage to a lack thereof.

    Posted by aintnoatlas on September 2, 2019

    I saw this post at the top of my reader page from MyLoudWhispersofHope and although I was planning to write something else, the end of her post had some questions that I thought were thought-provoking …

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  • Other people build the case against you and you award the verdict.

    Posted by aintnoatlas on August 1, 2019

    It’s amazing what the right people speaking to you in the wrong way will do to shift how you not only view yourself but function. I’ve been in a job where people talk to me …

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