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This Girl's Got Curves title: This Girl's Got Curves – A navigation of life with mental illness and other things

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Maybe I need…

I woke up, or didn’t wake up actually, on Thursday because I felt this profound fatigue that would not relent.

I was simply just exhausted.

I didn’t really feel sick in any other way except sort of nauseous.

Nausea though is kind of a transient problem for me with the chronic pancreatitis and the gastroparesis so I never know if th...


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Coping

I might be just barely keeping my head above water at the moment.

Things at my house are… challenging.

That’s the nice way to put it.

My mother has been hypomanic or manic for weeks.

She has been on steroids and so that has bumped up her mood, but as those of us who live with bipolar disorder know, mania is not all happy...


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I am sorry I’ve been absent from here.

It’s been a ridiculous holiday season.

Murphy’s law, right? Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

I am unable to fully cover everything that has misfired in the last month, but it has been substantial.

Just today my mom decided, literally out of the blue, to increase my rent. I don’t h...


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Frustration

Okay. So. I don’t really care which side of the political divide people fall on.

It’s really not that important to me.

Shocker I know.

Everyone is so divided.

The thing is, I see arguments on both sides on different issues and so I can’t really cast one side as stupid or evil.

I’m beyond exhausted hea...


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Joy!

I got one of my Christmas presents early.

It was a record player!

It’s just a cheap little suitcase one, but I like it and it plays records so I’m happy.

It has built in speakers, but it will also kick out to my Bluetooth speaker.

Anyway, my friend who got it for me took me to the record store in a city kind of nearby and we had...


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