I want to journal more. I love to write, but I tend to have a hard time getting started. Journaling with someone else would motivate me, but in COVID times, it’s hard to do that in person. So I figured, why not ask someone from the internet? Actually, why not ask everyone from the internet?… Continue reading #ThoughtfulThursday
This, I Believe: An Essay on Mindfulness
Today's post is an essay I recently wrote for class. My instructor asked me to write about something I believe in. I'm not big on believing in things, so instead I wrote about a scientific practice: mindfulness. I got an A on the assignment, and thought it was worth sharing here. ... "This, I Believe"… Continue reading This, I Believe: An Essay on Mindfulness
Changing my self-talk, three minutes at a time.
I need to change my narrative. Corny Facebook sayings don’t usually get to me, but today one did: “You will keep living the stories you tell yourself.” I think that’s really true. I’ve been telling myself that everything will hurt, that my anxiety has gotten out of hand. That might be true, but there are… Continue reading Changing my self-talk, three minutes at a time.
How shock therapy saved my life.
In 2018, I voluntarily received 19 electroconvulsive (shock) treatments at a hospital in Colorado to alleviate my depression. This is the true story of how that decision saved my life. ... One afternoon late in my twenty-third summer, I found myself sitting on a plastic couch in my psychiatrist’s office, begging him once again to… Continue reading How shock therapy saved my life.
RETURN of the ZOMBIE BLOG!
So, it’s been a while, huh? I apologize for my absence from this blog. It’s been more than a year since I posted anything new, but I’m very happy to announce that I’m back on my bullshit, and I’m resurrecting Miss Misery. The new content will be a little different than it was before. To… Continue reading RETURN of the ZOMBIE BLOG!
10 Ways To Support My Art (That’s Actually Only 8 Ways)
1. Buy my books on Amazon, or buy my music on Bandcamp, or both! 2. Follow me on Twitter @missmiserymusic 3. Burn a MAGA hat, get high on the fumes, and write a trippy poem. Send it to me at z@missmiserymusic.com (when you're sober enough to type) 4. Subscribe to my YouTube channel! 5. Send… Continue reading 10 Ways To Support My Art (That’s Actually Only 8 Ways)
Miss Misery Is Now Making Music.
Welcome to my music page. I have an album in the works. It'll come out pretty soon. Check out the rough cut of each track on my Bandcamp. (It's free unless you care to buy it.) For updates on the album's progress, please follow me on Twitter. In the meantime, peruse this site at your… Continue reading Miss Misery Is Now Making Music.
+10 Adulting Points
Being a young grown-up is hard. Society expects you to work toward achieving myriad family, education, career, and financial goals - all at the same time. I've struggled for years to devise a system that allows me to get through the day, let alone work toward these longterm goals. After spending a painful amount of… Continue reading +10 Adulting Points
Why I Dissociate
For the past three years, I've been experiencing dissociative episodes. These are periods of minutes to hours where my I claw my way through a set of unpleasant mental and physical symptoms that occur simultaneously. At its root, this is most likely a psychological phenomenon not unlike post-traumatic stress disorder: because I'm been traumatized before,… Continue reading Why I Dissociate
Borderline Schizophrenia
"I always run into the same issue when I fall down the rabbit hole of learning about schizophrenia: it scares the living hell out of me.
More than any other reason, that's because I can relate so thoroughly to its symptoms."
Miss Misery 