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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Sometimes you will make the wrong decisions in life and sometimes you will need to reach out to others for help and that's perfectly fine. We live in a society that is woefully ill-equipped to deal with mental illness and that is very problematic for us as a society.
I wanted
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to take a moment to thank all those who have written / called to check up on me. I also want to apologize to those who felt I just dropped off the map completely over the last several months. There is no excuse I can give other than I recently faced the most intense personal
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challenges I've ever dealt with as a human being and adult and that I was lucky to have the resources and companions to help me face these challenges. I will be online much more over the next month and going through a huge backlog of comms with other researchers / friends and
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family. Thank you so much for your patience and support. I'm looking forward to an amazing 2023 and I am dedicating at least 1-2 hours each day to get back on track with previous comms, etc.
If you have any questions, please let me know. I'll try to reply as time allows.
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Wishing you all the best, family issues tend to be very difficult manage. Glad things are becoming more manageable, hang in there!
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Thank you!! PS: What is this "mastodon.social" I am seeing more frequently on Twitter? Did they release some type of new integration module with Twitter?
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:) It is an alternative to twitter, very rudimentary and not polished at all, but given the direction that Twitter seems to be taking I reckon it pays have other options in mind. More info in case you are interested here:
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