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Why don’t you get a light box?
All the colors of the landscape fade into the cloudy gray Oregon sky. So why don’t I use a light box?
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Something Broke Apart or Came Together
eflecting on these years of language, poetry, love, and trauma, my dreamspace had fragile walls, barely holding together. As my insomnia worsened, it’s little wonder the walls broke and I can now read in…
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A Quick History of Medical Professionals and Me
The doctor I saw during college suggested I go to sleep before 2 AM. One of the therapists I saw at the student health center suggested warm milk. My psychiatrist in grad school gave…
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Who is my brain? Insomnia and Bipolar
On BlueSky, someone mentioned their difficulty with sleeping. I debated about saying anything, having long suffered well-meaning “have you tried?”s, but they’ve written about mental health issues similar to mine. I took the chance…
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The Chair
But with nowhere to sit upstairs, that meant chilling out in the bedroom. In bed. That was one of the very first things my CBT-I doctor said needed to change. I should only be…
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Review: A Sleeping Country (2010), a play by Melanie Marnich
Julia is suffering from insomnia. Her therapist/friend suggests she could have a rare disease (Fatal Familial Insomnia) that leads to death from being unable to sleep, an inherited affliction that can be traced to…
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Dream Safety
When I am in a witchy mood, I believe that time is happening all at once. (Like a movie? Yes, like a movie. Arrival.) If I feel well and good and strong, I send…
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Truth or Taunt
I have a very clear set of instructions for sleeping. For sleeping like a normal person. Instructions from a doctor who emphasized trying, doing my best, if I stumble, to keep going anyway. But…
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I forgot the store wasn’t real
The shopping center is arranged in a circle on a hill, framed by trees. The elegant brick facade is marred by the neon signs of the chain stores. The trees are tall, green, but…
I just wanted to get some rest.
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