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I’m Watching You Fight a Bully

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I’m watching you fight a bully. And it takes everything I have to not step in and fight on your behalf. But I do it for a simple reason: You asked me not to intervene.

a rubber duckie sitting atop a pile of three very fluffy bath towels

It’s a Rough Draft Kind of Life for a Bit

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I find myself wondering if I’ll one day be able to look back on this time and edit it into something cohesive, something presentable. Or if it’ll remain one thing that evades meaning-making.

a couple of kittens fighting

Little Changes Can Cause Big Stress

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*No one fed us!* my cat is screaming. *He’s doing the thing he normally does after he feeds us. We’re doomed. We’re gonna diiiiiiiie!*

a person with short hair and glasses who has their mouth open and appears to be yelling in stress. Their arms are overloaded with a stack of books and folders

When Your Stress Response Is to Do Even More

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“Part of me wonders if I’ll always be doing this — overloading myself until I can’t cope and then paring back and getting stressed again and loading myself back up.”