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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
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Anxiety/Panic Attacks/Agoraphobia Part 1 By Joe S. Thomas
Once again, tonight is a night that the insomnia has won out… It’s rare for me to sleep past 3 A.M. anymore… Here lately, 1:30 A.M… Whatever… Tonight, after listening to some of my 7” records and not really feeling like working in the poetry book I’ve been working on, I decided to watch a… Continue reading
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OUD (Opioid Use Disorder), Methadone Stigma and Semantics By Joe S. Thomas
Lately I’ve been thinking about taking steps to finish my Bachelor’s Degree to possibly get into an OUD (Opioid Use Disorder) counseling position, but there are times when I want to take courses in creative writing too… I am a writer and I don’t believe it’s absolutely necessary to take courses or go to school… Continue reading