A Crooked Path Forward

Hanging on like a barnacle. Memoir of my struggles and successes as originally published in Street Roots. Quotes, notes, occasional fart jokes.

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What's a good alibi for suicide? Asking for a friend.

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If I die in real life, I live in my dreams. Is that the idea behind the afterlife? Can't sleep. Won't sleep.

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Cunk on Britain:

"Going to the cinema in [the 1920s] was more like going to a book because there was no sound. The story was explained by words on the screen. A bit like spoilers but happening at the same time as you were watching it, so not as annoying."

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[…]how someone supposedly “makes” a clinician feel can confirm diagnoses like BPD [“borderline personality disorder”]. When I have feelings about my clinician, those feelings are attributed to me and my past. When my clinicians have feelings about me, they are ALSO attributed to me and my past. Somehow, the clinician ceases to exist as an individual who has their own experiences and emotional reactions, and the patient becomes some kind of all-encompassing emotion monster, whose feelings are so enormous, they fill up the entire space, including the clinician.

Wren Aves, “‘My Doctor is Lacking Insight’: Alternative Experiences of Insight in Mental Health”, Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad (blog), May 7, 2022

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Dreaming of getting back home

COMMENTARY | Home is more than housing, but housing is the first step to healing.

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A crooked path forward: I carry you all with me

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Under the shadow of Vista Bridge: There is hope in the face of suicidal thoughts

Proper access to mental health care saved my life.

I found my way, thanks to my mentors

COMMENTARY | Because of the support and guidance I received since childhood, I see a higher purpose, Dustin Dandliker writes in A Crooked Pa

A Crooked Path Forward is a first-hand account of the struggles and successes of overcoming trauma, mental illness, addiction, homelessness

Will privilege become extinct? Or will humanity?

COMMENTARY | In a culture that favors me for positions of power just because of my skin color and gender, I am ready to be a follower instea

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Recovery: Individual results may vary

COMMENTARY | Change cannot be mandated; support and motivation are required.

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To make it on the streets, I had to look like you: not homeless

COMMENTARY | We try everything to look like you – not homeless – to humanize our struggle. Please, educate yourselves about the underlying c

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Velvet Elvis: A tribute to my matriarchs

This series is a first-hand account of the struggles and successes of overcoming trauma, mental illness, addiction, homelessness and more.

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Confessions of a misogynist

I wasn’t born hating women. No one is. I developed a sense of entitlement after years of privilege.

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Virgo and Pisces: A bond between father and son

COMMENTARY | My dad is a Virgo. I am a Pisces. We're as different as water and earth, but we belong together.

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