"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Tag: labels and stigma


  • November_2025_JPG.zip

    November_2025_JPG.zip

    A lot happened this month, to say the least. Didn’t take many pictures. ​

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  • October_2025_JPG.zip

    October_2025_JPG.zip

    All Hawaii. Didn’t take any other photos this month.

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  • Kratom_Uninstall_v1.zip

    Three hundred days ago, I walked away from my drug dealer—and it came in a shiny, “natural” package. Kratom didn’t look dangerous. It promised relief, energy, healing. What it delivered was dependence. My opioid receptors didn’t care that it came from a plant. The withdrawals were brutal, the marketing still predatory, and the lie of…

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  • From_Fragmented_to_Whole_v1.zip

    I was diagnosed with Bipolar I in 2007, but the truth is my war with myself started long before that—shaped by childhood trauma, military exposure, toxic relationships, and years of survival-mode coping. I lost jobs, housing, stability, and nearly my sense of self. What changed wasn’t a miracle cure. It was ownership. I got sober.…

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  • Here_I_Am_Tonight_v1.zip

    Anxiety has been with me since childhood. I’ve used a lot of things to numb it. Cannabis was one of the better ones — until I stopped cold turkey to prep for brain scans, and found out it had a death grip on me I never saw coming. Now I’m in full withdrawals, feeling terrible,…

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