Category: Personal Image
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Trains, Plain and an automobile
It’s been a busy week with job hunting, interviews, and a trip to Birmingham to spend time with my friends. On top of that, today is my birthday, and I’ve travelled to London for an appointment that could have been a phone call. Towards the end of last week, I booked two-second interviews for the…
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Planning, Dreaming & Leftovers
At the start of 2024, feeling hopeful and planning future steps. Taking simple actions towards greater goals and embracing upcoming challenges.
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New Year’s Eve, Braising Steak & Pinot Grigio
The author reflects on New Year’s, plans positive changes for 2024 including finding a new job, moving, and getting back into shape.
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How low can you go… how low can you go…
Pretty fucking low, that’s how low. I write this from the bottom of a monumental funk. My inner voice has been tormenting me all night after yesterday’s mess. Read all about it here I am worthless, unable to do simple things ‘correctly’, a burden on the people around me, a big bag of rotting fat…
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OK, Stress and a side of chips.
Well, it’s Christmas Eve, and as ever, my parents are getting stressed with everyone. Despite doing as much prep as is possible before cooking the Christmas dinner tomorrow my mother is worried that we will never be ready on time. My father has turned of the power to his remaining two brain cells and is…
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8 Days Until Christmas
I struggle with depression, feeling misunderstood by my family, and the challenge of maintaining self-care.
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Ouch! That hurts, and that stings.
The writer had an unexpected tooth extraction during a routine dental appointment. Despite feeling physically battered, he prefers physical pain over chronic or emotional pain.
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Bored, Lost, Ready but not ready… yet!
Recently unemployed after a ten-year job due to ‘redundancy’, I’m struggling with depression, weight problems, and concerns about future employment prospects.
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Change? How? One step at a time, and the knackers yard.
A depressed and obese individual resentfully struggles with weight loss, plans to revisit surgical options, and begins creating a personal bucket list.
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A wet and windy Monday in December
The narrator expressed admiration for a confident, sexually dominant profile they discovered on Twitter, and subsequently struggled with self-doubt about their own ability to embody such traits.
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