*facepalms forever*

[flamingsword]

“Head MRI negative.

Dr. _____”

I just love the new apps that let your doctor’s office be a terse bastard at you virtually as well as in person. Like, am I negative for having a sinus infection in the bone? Am I negative for Chiari malformation? Am I negative for having a head? We may never know.

But I am glad that the headaches have been getting steadily better, and that I can smell slightly better also, which I hadn’t even noticed losing a bit of. In fact, it’s after 5 and I don’t have a headache right now - which is freaking awesome, and is huge progress.

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I have been doing journaling in the Therapets Journal that a friend got me for Yule, because it reminds me to be gentle with myself while I’m working at making myself mentally healthier. I have the habit of looking at how far I have to go to get to ultimate!Heidi instead of how far I’ve come or what I’ve survived. A visible-on-page reminder that who I am now is a good me to be? That my anxiety and depression lie? That I will make it through this with care and concern more easily than with self-blame? It makes a huge difference.

One of the things I have decided is that instead of trying to do morning pages for my anti-alexithymia project where I have to remember yesterdays feelings (hard), I’m going to do nightly recollections and the thought-naming exercise meditation at the end of the day (much easier).

Comments

[sabotabby]

Your head is negative? Negative heads?

(Sorry I am grim with the medical humour.)

[flamingsword]

I have 0 heads, and therefore should not have to pay for a head MRI.

[ex_flameandsong751]

Your head is MRI negative. There literally is not a MRI machine inside your head. Hooray!

/super helpful I'm sure

[flamingsword]

“Brains, why?” More like “Brain where”, am I right? (rhymes with MRI?)

I don’t know that I would like to have an MRI in my head, since it would mean I would attract things to hit magnetically. In the head. 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️ Nope nope nope.

[ex_flameandsong751]

New X-men OC, "this is TheMRI, Magneto's... uh... cousin?" [pronounced them-R-I]

[flamingsword]

🧲🧲🧲 “Yeah, my cousin is like a living tokamak reactor, which sounds cool, right? But he’s basically a bad Malcolm X knock-off, it’s kinda wack. Also he keeps sticking all the servingware and silverware together with super-magnetism so we can’t invite him to shabbos anymore.” 🧲🧲🧲

[ex_flameandsong751]

🤣🤣🤣

[tuzemi]

Just fyi I loved reading everything about this. 💗

Yay for a better feeling head/body! Crossing fingers for that to keep getting better.

Yay for a platform that helps put your awesome bits where you can see them. 😺

And yay for trying a new routine that might give you a better wind down and more upbeat morning.

[flamingsword]

Thanks!

[dhampyresa]

Am I negative for having a head?

So THAT's what the sword was for.