HeyJaredScribbles by Kat
"I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address." Irish version of Bridget Jones.
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You’re still here (opens the original)
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Warning: this article mentions suicide and some may find it triggering I always feel pressured to speak out about my mental health during suicide awareness month because I have in the past but it often feels very overwhelming. Sometimes I don’t have anything overly hopeful to say. As someone who has ‘survived’ suicidal ideation, I often feel like I should be super positive and hopeful when speaking out, but sometimes I can’t muster up the perfect thing to say. September is a very triggering mont
The fear of being too much (opens the original)
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Am I too much? Too intense? Too sensitive? Too eager? Too shy? Too boring? Too chatty? Do I text my friends too much? Do I pester people to hang out too much? Do I share my feelings too much? Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always felt like being ‘too much’ was a bad thing. As women, we’ve always been told to be smaller. Don’t make a show. Don’t cry so much. Don’t be so loud. Don’t be so attention seeking. Shrink yourself until society is satisfied, both emotionally and physically. Be skinn
You used to wish for a life like this (opens the original)
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It is my birthday tomorrow, August 18th, and as per usual, I am feeling exceptionally overwhelmed by it. I am a Leo so I tend to treat my birthday like a national holiday. Now, add in the fact that both my little sisters celebrate their birthdays within a week of mine, August 22nd and 25th, and you have quite the jam-packed week of celebrating in the O’Connor household.As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to make a bigger fuss of my birthday. The main reason being I didn’t want to celebrate anymor
Yes, I'm doing better (opens the original)
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After years of blood tests, confusing GP appointments, ultrasounds, and missed periods, I finally started being treated for PMOS (formerly PCOS.) I was hesitant about writing about this, but as the weeks went on it started to feel weird not to write about it. I was reading Writers & Lovers by Lily King recently, and one line hit me hard, “I don’t write because I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”I’m not writing about my health for pity or ‘hope you’r
But her life looks so much better than mine (opens the original)
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I’ve reached a point in my life where I feel content with my lot. I often think that my teenage self would think the life I’m now living is pretty much what we dreamed of (minus the housing crisis). Like Kathleen Kelly in You’ve Got Mail, “I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small” and I often worry that it isn’t ‘good enough.’ Not necessarily for my own sake, but compared to the hundreds of lives I see unfold in front of me on Instagram every day.Like many other women, I am incredibly gui
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