WHY IS WALKING PAST STRANGERS SO STRESSFUL
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The Good Life
Overcoming Social Anxiety, one step at a time.
**With some politics thrown in here and there.**
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Here they are, the baby praying mantises.
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While out in the garden today, my dad spotted a litter of baby praying mantises. They looked so cute being really, really tiny and swaying back and forth. Hard to believe that the females grow up to cannibalize their sexual partners….
But they are suppose to be good luck. So hope that superstition holds true. -
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My brother called up this morning to tell my mom something…
Apparently my niece screamed or hollered ”Nana” at least three times last night. Both he and his wife heard it…
Of course, my mom kept saying Nana over and over against to her and they say it takes hearing a word at least 70ish time for it to register…
And she is just about two months old.
Can you say Advanced?!My mom says she is planning on her learning the word “Pop-pop.”
Oh, and I think she has said hey or hi or both before, because that is what her parents say to her all the time.
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Fuck! I’m tired of this.
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Anxiety is not ME: cuttlezach: Coming to terms with the fact that you suffer from mental...
Coming to terms with the fact that you suffer from mental illness and nothing that you did or did not do would have changed that is tough. It takes a lot of courage to recognize that you brain just does not function the way that others do and accept that. Your pride loves to…
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
— Sylvia Plath (via smokemother)(Source: onlinecounsellingcollege, via evanclay)
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social anxiety is not cute.
unless if you think that shaking from fear of going out and constantly canceling plans and losing friends is cute….because then it’s adorable.
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(Source: all-just-ghosts-to-you, via anxietysurvivor)
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Chicago Hospital Accused of Cutting Throats for $160,000
A surgeon at Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital cut a hole in Earl Nattee’s throat on Jan. 3, the day before he died. It’s not clear why.
The medical file contained no explanation of the need for the procedure, called a tracheotomy, according to a state and federal inspection report that quotes Sacred Heart’s chief nursing officer as saying it happened “out of the blue.” Tracheotomies are typically used to open an air passage directly to the windpipe for patients who can’t breathe otherwise.
Now, amid a federal investigation into allegations of unneeded tracheotomies at the hospital, Nattee’s daughter, Antoinette Hayes, wonders whether her father was a pawn in what an FBI agent called a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.
“My daddy said, ‘They’re killing me,’” Hayes recalled, in reference to the care he received at the hospital.
Based in part on surreptitious tape recordings, an FBI affidavit lays out allegations that a Sacred Heart pulmonologist kept patients too sedated to breathe on their own, then ordered unneeded tracheotomies for them — enabling the for-profit hospital to reap revenue of as much as $160,000 per case.
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The Free Lioness: Can you imagine how convenient it would be for government members to...
Can you imagine how convenient it would be for government members to leak nudes, semi-nudes, or provocative photos of someone that was either running for office in the opposite party, working as a whistleblower, speaking out actively against them, etc?
We joke about the government having access…
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I just received my Alumni card from my college.
Maybe I can go about getting a gym membership there so my sister and I can go work out at the gym together. -
I don’t have to listen to your phone calls to know what you’re doing. If I know every single phone call you made, I’m able to determine every single person you talked to. I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive… . If it’s true that 200 million Americans’ phone calls were monitored - in terms of not listening to what they said, but to whom they spoke and who spoke to them - I don’t know, the Congress should investigative this.
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Gonna add strawberry lemonade to my tea.
