this post-opiate brain fog is real af. it takes me 10x as long to read and understand dense literature I could read once and tell ya all about it

withdrawal fully ends at one year (Aug 13th) and rebounds should stop then, but it’s going to take a lot of retraining
this is why i’ve put off grad school for so long. i’m physically mostly ready, and my mental state is stable (bless my therapist— i did the hard work, but they have been the best guide I could ask for)
i am in the process of studying for the GRE and applying to grad schools. i’m a shoe in for pretty much any school i want to go to if i get a decent score (gpa, writing sample, recs, etc are excellent)

but it’s so weird looking back at what i was able to accomplish b4 disability
this is why i’m applying to schools with the intention of starting fall 2021 to give me the time I need to continue progressing in every which way and to read...a lot
i also want to make this account public at some point and try (maybe I’m beating a dead horse at this point) to better and more concisely tackle what happened on my main in late 2018

i think people have moved on, and i have as well, but i want to clear my name with a clear head
the first time i pretty much just disappeared because i was hypomanic

the second time i was still not quite mentally balanced and subdued with opiates for pain

and the recent time i was still having this brain fog and intense rebounds
none of this is to weaponize anything i was going through all those years, because mental illness and/or physical disability is no excuse for any form of toxic behavior

it does, though, contextualize how i reacted, how i made things worse and-
how none of that probably would have happened in that state

i probably wouldn’t have even had a platform to begin with lol

i was fully manic (the good part, before the storm) when i first started tweeting in late 2015/early 2016, and people found it amusing
anyways this account won’t stay locked forever, and i’m either going to make a new account with my full name or just do it here
and to bring it back to the first tweet in this thread:

if you are struggling with any form of mental illness, disability, withdrawal, etc.

i promise you it really does get better. you learn how to live with it. you learn how to tame the storms raging in your body. you adapt.
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