Family
-
Addiction, Cancer, Life & Death By Joe S. Thomas
*** I had one of my spastic, wake-up abruptly, panic moments the other day and something’s been on my mind since… It’s been hanging over me like a cloud that I can’t seem to shake… It’s been with me for a while honestly… There have been many crises within the crisis that is often what… Continue reading
death, Depression, Family, friendship, Life, Loss, love, Mental Health, nonfiction, questions, rage, truthaddiction, anger, Cancer, death, Depression, Empathy, Family, feelings, guilt, insomnia, Life, Mental Health, pain, pain pills, rage, reaching out, Sympathy -
It Never Seems To Stop (Reliving Trauma) Part 2 By Joe S. Thomas
*** Before I go into the details of the mess from which I’m still attempting to rebuild my life, there’s something I feel I must say… I will never, ever trust a cop, ever… If my life and times have taught me one fact it’s that almost all cops are true liars and it’s not… Continue reading
-
One of My Role Models By Joe S. Thomas
*** Again, unable to sleep tonight and listening to John Waters’ audiobook Role Models… It got me thinking of childhood and who I would consider the character I wanted to be, who I first saw and came to know about and then wanted to become through television… As a kid I religiously read Incredible Hulk… Continue reading
-
Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia Part 2 By Joe S. Thomas
*** Continued-After many attempts and many hundreds of dollars lost, I finally made the emergency room doctors understand that I was having a legitimate problem and that I wasn’t faking for some sort of attention or wasn’t a drug seeker… At the time I didn’t know what a drug seeker even happened to be… This… Continue reading
-
First Time Drinkers By Joe S. Thomas
*** On the days that I really fight the depression that often overwhelms me I find myself thinking a lot about when I started drinking and drugging, why I did so and how it has affected my life… I’m still no goody 2 shoes and I’m not cool with anyone telling me how to live… Continue reading
-
Into the Void By Joe S. Thomas
*** It made me sick when I heard those words come out of his mouth… The words my sister’s widower spoke to the hideous thing still cuddled up nice and warm in the exact spot my sister took her last breath and passed over into death and whatever that entails… I love you… These were… Continue reading
death, Depression, disability, Family, Journaling, Life, Loss, love, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, nonfiction, questions, rage, therapy, truth, writinganger, Cancer, death, Depression, Empathy, Family, feelings, home, Life, love, mastectomy, Mental Health, pain, shame, writing -
Windsor Court By Joe S. Thomas
*** I woke up today with thoughts of Windsor Court in my mind… I believe that’s my subconscious begging for a bit of punishment or perhaps some nostalgia for things long past and even dead… Windsor Court, it sounds so elegant… And the neighborhood itself was at one time… Two and three story, beautiful homes… Continue reading
-
Reading “Molly” By Joe S. Thomas
*** I’m reading a book that’s breaking my heart… It’s also making me relate wholeheartedly to a beautiful person that chose to take her life… The book is : Molly. It was written by her husband Blake Butler… My heart does go out to him, yet my heart goes out even more so to Molly… Continue reading
-
Some Thoughts On My Family By Joe S. Thomas
*** I can honestly say I never liked most of my family… Or perhaps I should say I never liked being around most my family… Immediate and extended… I mean I loved them from a distance, but couldn’t take the close proximity… Back when I was a child, somewhere between 8-10 years of age there… Continue reading