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Narrating therapy
the first time i had psychotherapy it was between my early and mid-twenties (i think that means i was exactly 24!). i was contending daily with serious suicidal thoughts; i didn’t know, then, ho… more →
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narrating therapy
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ama wrote 5 months ago: the first time i had psychotherapy it was between my early and mid-twenties (i think that means i wa … more →
saving women
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ama wrote 6 months ago: i think i’ve always struggled with believing what i felt. my feelings have always been suspect … more →
out of time
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ama wrote 6 months ago: there are friends i meet only in the interstices of time. they are always there. my online friends. … more →
beauty out of pain
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ama wrote 7 months ago: i keep reading books that fashion tremendous overflowing beauty out of massive pain. they are everyw … more →
delicious
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ama wrote 7 months ago: yesterday i left the house to take care of a few things and i realized that i wasn’t feeling t … more →
a laundry list of happenings
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ama wrote 8 months ago: my therapy wars, the time of radical uncertainty, suddenly came to an end, and therapy turned from h … more →
easy love
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ama wrote 9 months ago: i think about love. the easy love, for instance, that allows my sister, in her fortieth year, to ope … more →
random acts of violence
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ama wrote 9 months ago: i’m trying to understand what happens in our lives, that a 19-year-old can go from feeling a c … more →
of family and history
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ama wrote 9 months ago: we have family in town and my level of activity in the last two days has seen a 600% increase over t … more →
cheery thanksgiving meme
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ama wrote 9 months ago: let me start by saying that thanksgiving, and i say this with the utmost respect, is entirely meanin … more →
to be young and gay in the 80s
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ama wrote 9 months ago: in early morning web wanderings i stumbled upon this post. i wasn’t looking for queer blogs. i … more →
secret and lies
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ama wrote 9 months ago: someone last night told me a terrible secret. i came home and i fell asleep almost immediately. the … more →
strange men in the garden of eden
ama wrote 9 months ago: there are men in the garden doing things men do. a large truck’s loud engine has been running … more →
we, the gay kids
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ama wrote 9 months ago: i have loved women all of my life. my family and i went on holidays in the mountains. my parents hir … more →
are u listening
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ama wrote 10 months ago: i tell my therapist, “i find you attractive.” she looks at me intently. i continue, … more →
song of the palm tree
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ama wrote 10 months ago: i thank the man/woman who delivered esopus magazine today and put it on the mat outside my door. i t … more →
loving too much
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ama wrote 10 months ago: the tree the gardeners had reduced to bare bones two weeks ago is now covered in green shoots. the s … more →
airlock therapy, good for the soul, good for the body
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ama wrote 10 months ago: as i spend night after night conducting endless conversations with my trial therapist* in my head in … more →
no safe words (third session with my new therapist)
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ama wrote 10 months ago: i’m treading in the danger zone. i’m treading on the mine field. will i lose a limb or w … more →
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