Thursday, June 19, 2014

Robo Hobo Homo #046

That was something else I’d done on Wednesday. I had received assurances that I had insurance coverage, so I decided I’d take some time to actually get evaluated.

I want to start by saying that I don’t consider my suicidal tendencies to be an error or the result of something wrong with my brain. If anything, the fact that I haven’t done so in the face of the overwhelming evidence of the futility of my building a future is proof of some processing flaw.

None the less, I do get emotional flashes where I do want to die as a result of stress. Having someone just slide up and blow my brains out would be a preferable experience to some of the social situations I encounter. It’s just cleaner and easier.

It’s not my lack of zeal for life that I find troublesome. It’s the aggressiveness of these moods that concerns me. It’s that I can be so down for so long. It’s that I can be so euphoric at something which is rationally a very small thing.

I don’t think that having “nominal” brain chemistry is the cure for anything. I do think that maybe if I didn’t brood over things, I’d be a little more capable of engaging in the social give-and-take that’s required to stay at a job for longer than a year.

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