Pros and Cons of Thinking Too Hard

Overthinkers are the anxious eveningtide philosophers. Dusk falls and thoughts roam free. Of course we aren't constrained to thinking too hard just at night— whenever there’s a lull, a liminality, a quiet moment for our inner monologue to fill— but restless thoughts before bed is a fairly universal experience. We wonder, regurgitate, ruminate, theorize, and …

Disabled Motivation: Obstacles

Routines of everyday life are often riddled with roadblocks for people with disabilities. The range of obstacles is as vast as every person’s individual journey but there are basic systems of overcoming that can aid everyone. We as humans are diverse but connected in many ways, aspects of my life have been lived by many …

Frozen: Acute and Longterm Dissociation

Stress and anxiety can petrify me, solidify me. I’m trapped in amber. Laying on the floor, hands idly moving, maybe I’m looking at something and I’ll keep looking. I won’t see but I’ll stare. Nothing around me is quantity. There is no mass. There’s no me. Objectality ceases as the freeze begins. There always has …

The Cosmic Horror of Social Interaction

The conglomerate mass of souls we exist as eats, transfigures and distorts. We are a being. Terror lurks in various components of a god vying but trying to coexist, in the ripples and schisms as we desperately feed ourselves. Dynamicism keeps the whole alive, we would fall into catastrophic stagnation elsewise— but the web of …