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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:55PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: The End of Euphememory

URL: livedammit.com/the-end-of-euph

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

stuffed like dolls like taxidermied heads like blackmailers’ file drawers with fascial paper crinkled with jugular ink a rubbermaid bin of journals ticks like an impatient bomb waiting to obliterate comfortable euphememories stripping airy cottonwool padding to reveal bare splintered ends of forgotten truth

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URL: livedammit.com/the-end-of-euph

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:42PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: Thanks Giving

URL: livedammit.com/thanks-giving/?

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

A bow to you, my friends of fur and feathers you bearers of witness to sentience in the four-legged winged scaled and creepy-crawling beings, the wielders of forks not knives, you advocates of kindness simplicity and walking lightly on the earth: a bow to you. And I bow also to the great green nation that […]

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URL: livedammit.com/thanks-giving/?

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LIVE, Dammit is a mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables — for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong.

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:29PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: raw

URL: livedammit.com/raw/?utm_source

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

if the news were a movie and i a child watching i’d be asking mommy can we go home now? i don’t want to watch any more …but it’s not… i go outside, feed the feral cats wonder how much cesium tellurium iodine they are absorbing in the soft spring rain how much are cats […]

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URL: livedammit.com/raw/?utm_source

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

LIVEdammit · raw - LIVEdammitif the news were a movie and i a child watching i’d be asking mommy can we go home now? i don’t want to watch any more …but it’s not… i go outside, feed the feral cats wonder how much cesium tellurium iodine they are absorbing in the soft spring rain how much are cats […]

DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:08PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: Fox Medicine

URL: livedammit.com/fox-medicine/?u

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

sister fox fleeing through forestland (it’s All so vast over- whelming roots branches sweeping ground touching sky) preying upon/preyed upon small thing furbearing pheromone bearing bundle of fourfooted money on the movenever knowing profit is more important than Truth more important than Freedom more important than running Wild touching Sacred Earth Sacred Water Sacred Wood […]

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URL: livedammit.com/fox-medicine/?u

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LIVE, Dammit is a mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables — for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong.

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

DATE: June 15, 2025 at 10:56PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: Coupling

URL: livedammit.com/coupling/?utm_s

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

“…whether it is husband and wife coupling in their love and birthing a child; whether it is a widow coupling with the memory of a deceased husband; all love is born of the conflict that dialectical consciousness acknowledges.” –Matthew Fox, Original Blessing It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. You’d flame out like the Challenger […]

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URL: livedammit.com/coupling/?utm_s

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LIVE, Dammit is a mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables — for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong.

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

DATE: June 15, 2025 at 10:53PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: A Cappella

URL: livedammit.com/a-cappella/?utm

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

I wrote this at the end of my son’s senior year of college, five months after my husband’s passing. Towering foursquare blocks of lectures and learning climb against the night sky echoing a year’s last songs of laughter, youth swaying in grass skirts, leis, paper bras strung on rippled chests, four years fresh and launching […]

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URL: livedammit.com/a-cappella/?utm

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LIVE, Dammit is a mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables — for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong.

Learn more at livedammit.com/blog/ .

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

DATE: June 15, 2025 at 10:50PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG

TITLE: Dark Silence

URL: livedammit.com/dark-silence/?u

TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.

dark silence desires no words strikes the hand weak mouth dumb that frame them dark silence like smoke flees the hands grasping for it blurs the eyes clouds the mind straining to pierce it dark silence alone consumes itself in unending withdrawal unending fear of the silent dawning Light

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URL: livedammit.com/dark-silence/?u

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LIVE, Dammit is a mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables — for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong.

Learn more at livedammit.com/blog/ .

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #self-care

I want to make counselors aware of a resource for survivors of many types -- mental health, trauma, and more.

LIVE, Dammit (Previously Survivors' Haven): livedammit.com/

"A mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables—for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong."

The website allows survivors to share stories of struggle and endurance, features in-depth articles and interviews, uplifting quotes, links to outside resources, and more.

They are also on Bluesky at:
bsky.app/profile/livedammit.bs

I have added them to my Mastodon Psych Bot news feed at:
mastodon.clinicians-exchange.o

Thanks,
Michael

--
Michael Reeder LCPC

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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide #boundaries #community #empowerment #energywork #forgiveness #healing #joy #nature #oneness #perspective #selfcare

You should respect someone's #boundaries even if you think you're being nice.

Gifts make me anxious and panicky at first, as growing up they were used to manipulate me.

I have been seeing someone and she has been paying for dates as I'm broke.

She noticed my screen was cracked, and got me a phone, which I turned down, and she kept insisting I take it until I panicked and had to leave.

She's been texting me apologizing, and I don't know what to say as I'm embarrassed.

I've been doing more healing work to recover from being abusively #blindsided by a jealous woman who I have never even met but had attempted to psychologically #blackmail my companion, after faking being nice to me. I never expected to be #suckerpunched by a woman I've never even met in person. It shook me. It traumatized me. It was NOT OK.

Never ever defend #abusive people who have violated #boundaries multiple times & harmed multiple people, intentionally.

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

It's Monday. Hope y'all are having a day! ("Have a good day" seems like a lot of pressure in these times.)

I wrote a thing about
euphemism
the Left
doge
Musk
the destruction of the commons
and trauma.

Here's the first part:
the Lack in the Left
courtcan.com/2025/04/10/the-la

#euphemism
#theLeft
#doge
#ElonMusk
#theOther
#theLack
#thePublic
#theCommons
#trauma
#boundaries

courtcan.comthe Lack in the Left – Courtney Cantrell's COURT CAN WRITE

I had to cut off an acquaintance this morning. He kept asking me for money. I gave him $200 over the last two years. I asked him politely to stop, but money was literally the ONLY time he'd text me. And what did he do this morning? He asked me for money again, taking advantage of my generosity.

I feel like utter shit. But this was necessary. I am trying to learn to stick up for my boundaries. This is a 180 from my usual tactics. All this is new and scary. But I'm doing it.

How to make friends with ponies in 3 easy steps:

  1. Put out the hay in multiple piles so the ponies have choices.

  2. Sit next to a hay pile like you’re having a picnic.

  3. When the ponies come up to share your picnic spot, resist the monkey-instinct to pat them. Sharing a hay pile may not seem like you’re doing much, but you came here for 3 easy steps, didn’t you?

Actually, the ponies find it pretty meaningful to peacefully share a good snack spot. That doesn’t stop Abner from rudely sticking his face in Abigail’s face just to see if she still likes him enough to tolerate his more annoying behaviors sometimes. Just like sometimes, I don’t manage to resist the urge to pat. And I see in their expressions that they would often prefer if I sat there quietly and kept my hands to myself.