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When Mental Health Triggers Collide With Your Writing
As writers we can choose what we write and when we write. So it seems a bit odd that we would write something that triggers our mental health if we didn't want to. And yet, that's exactly what happens when life, publishing circumstances, or even the prose itself, comes up against ou
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#CreativeNervousSystem #MentalHealth #triggers #writing

To be clear, I don’t think “looking Jewish” is anything to be afraid of. I just don’t want to look too much like any one thing, especially something that I’m not, because authenticity and versatility are important to my work.
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Prism & Pen · What Does My Reaction to Orthodox Jews Tell Us About Anti-Gay Trolls?By James Patrick Nelson

I am not going to #livestream today like I said.

Going to #skidrow yesterday put me in a dark state of mind, and I am exhausted.

However I feel it was good for me, and I am better today now that some #emotions have processed.

I need a rest because I basically had the most terrifying hour or two ever-

1. #livestream when I was nervous and a novice.

2. Be in giant #protest of people which terrified me.

3. Go to Skidrow which #triggers me hard.

Someone did tip me a dollar.

It isn't the Universe's job to keep us from encountering our triggers ever again, as nice as that would be.

Our task is to work on our triggers as best we can, and to work on avoiding the triggers we're not ready to work on yet.

When other people help us avoid our triggers, good on them. But that doesn't make it their responsibility.