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My Mental Health 2025
TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains content about suicide, suicide ideation/attempts, major depression I’m sorry for not posting much since my last update and there’s really no excuse, other than my brain is STILL an asshole…and, well…2025. I just re-read my last post, and it seems so long ago. I was most definitely in a different…
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My Mental Health Status
TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains content about suicide, suicide ideation/attempts, major depression and familial trauma. My mental status, in a nutshell? It’s all over the place. Kind of bleak, but at the same time, covered in love. Ok…that sounded grosser than I meant it…..Anyway, here’s where I’m at. I had a major setback to my…
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The Everton Match
My wife and I are huge fans of the Premier League football team Everton, who are based out of Liverpool, England. When Nancy and I moved to Annapolis, MD in December of 2011, I couldn’t tell you anything about association football, better known as soccer here in America. HOW WE FELL IN LOVE WITH WHAT…
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Switching meds…I’m a wreck
I am currently a complete mental mess. Let me tell you why. For years, I have been taking Trintellix for major depression and anxiety. Along with semi-weekly therapy, this medication has made my mental health change for the better. We found out earlier this year that our insurance company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, would stop paying…
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Why I Left the Intelligence Community
MY HISTORY I have worked for the Department of Defense (DoD) since 1992. The first eight years I was serving in the US Navy as a Cryptographic Technician (Communications). I was responsible for disseminating message traffic to and from our command at the Top Secret/SCI level. In late 1996, I arrived at my last duty…
