When you are younger, you can get away with chronic sleep deprivation but as you get older, you notice that your mind / body doesn't spring back quite as fast as it used to.
Anyway, I felt personally responsible for failed projects / research when I wasn't able to meet
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deadlines and then as time went on, I felt more and more behind on things and it just felt easier mentally to "retreat" from online conversations. After talking to a therapist, I started learning proper coping mechanisms and other ways to keep an even keel mentally. Pushshift...
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merged with NCRI several years ago and luckily I've had a fantastic team to help when things got more stressful. We were able to raise substantial funds to move most of the Pushshift architecture into a proper COLO and we are continuing to transition services to the new location.
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I'm starting to get back into a much better place mentally and getting more assistance with my dad's condition while also supporting my mother with her anxiety and depression dealing with her own mother. When we are born, we don't get a "life manual" to accompany our journey...
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Anxiety & depression are daily battles and has been for a number of years, I've microdosed mushrooms for about 6 months due to anxiety and depression and it helped. Look up flanniganspores on Instagram, he’s got the best tips and stuff for microdosing. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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I've heard so much amazing research on this and my therapist brought it up a while back. It definitely sounds like a promising avenue to help with depression. Maybe we could chat for a bit sometime next week if you have time?
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The crazy thing about depression is that I didn't even know I was suffering from it. I didn't have thoughts of self-harm or anything like that. But the weight was just growing until I started having constant nightmares every night where I would be chased and then tortured in some
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way. I rarely ever had nightmares previously -- so I think my brain was telling me "red alert -- seek out help now." It is amazing how powerful our subconscious is.
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