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Grit & Bear It
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Manic Megan
Honest, Raw, and Healing.
An uncensored first-hand account of life from a woman with mental illnesses.
Manic Megan

Relationships
Real stories, real tears, and real love. Sharing the intimate journey of my life and relationships to create a space where we all feel seen and heard.


Taking Space
It made me understand so much more about myself. It provided me more of a direction to go as I move forward with life.
Jul 134 min read


We started from the bottom ...
The den had couches that likely had never been cleaned and were probably covered in all sorts of disgusting human secretions.
Jul 95 min read


Life-Changing Mirror: Part II - Clarity, A Sign of Hope
"Realize it's not personal; people act out of their own traumas and emotional problems from way back, not because of you." – Robert Greene Often times, the “why” of #behavior, #beliefs, and #morals comes from experienced # trauma. While some believe if you process #trauma, it won’t have a negative impact. My experience is that it takes away the possibility of re-traumatizing, but it does not take away the memory or the meaning. When an individual tells me about an ongoing rea
Jun 65 min read


WTF?!
“Can’t wait to get past whatever the fucking fuck this season is in my life right now – because seriously, what the fuck?!” There have been a number of times in my life this exact thought has not just crossed, but planted, itself in my mind. As an adolescent, it was finding out that my two best friends were going to boarding school so I would be headed to the local public high school, alone. Add in a little #socialanxiety and a horrific lack of #selfesteem, it was a recipe fo
May 192 min read


Forever Grieving
... but the weight is just too heavy to carry and prepare to drop right now.
May 94 min read


Anger is my Middle Name
For as long as I can remember, anger has always been the easiest emotion for me to express, and the first one that comes to the surface - far more than any other. For the longest time, I felt as though it was the only emotion I had. About halfway through my past career, my boss began referring to the timeframe from 2015-2016 as my "angry years". It just so happened that this was the time when my addictions had come to a head in my adult life. I was doing everything I never th
May 83 min read


Manuel & Jack
... and Their Mission for Subterfuge. Being a single mother certainly doesn't mean I don't want a life partner or companion. That said, I've tried to date, primarily for the last 2 years. Prior to that, I really wasn't ready. For someone who deals with trust issues, abandonment issues, and negative self-talk, the consequences of deceivers/dissumlators is ten-fold. Note: This is only a starter list for two particularly disturbing relationships. The most recent with a pseudolog
May 73 min read


Certain People Never Change
He used to ask where we would've been if we began US those years ago when we met, and I assured him we would have only crashed and burned then, we both needed to mature.
May 62 min read
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