Post-traumatic stress disorder: Anxiety affecting individuals who have experienced profound emotional trauma. Symptoms include recurrent flashbacks, eating disorders, fatigue, forgetfulness and social withdrawal. The affected person may re-experience the event in their thoughts or dreams. It is a very isolating thing being sucked into a world that nobody else can see. I’m lost in my own mind conversing with the past and when I emerge, I’m alone. [...]
The year was 1990; Long before Barney the dinosaur existed. The boy’s name was Jeff and he had a penchant for following me around at recess. He had black hair and blue eyes set against surprisingly pale skin for someone growing up in Hawaii. I was still an only child and – quite honestly – [...]
I was sitting at work paying bills on my lunch break one day when fate shined down upon me and revealed the best prank that any wife has ever played on her husband. I happened to be glaring at an invoice from my gynecologist at the time, thinking, “This bill is ridiculously high. Don’t I have insurance for [...]
When I was five years old, I went to stay with my dad and step-mom for the summer. My dad’s wife, Jessica, was new in my life and I was intrigued about everything she did. She was beautiful, with fiery red hair, a high-pitched laugh and big black boots that she wore constantly. I followed her [...]
The year was 1998. The setting: a dreaded end-of-year junior high school dance. I was a painfully awkward 13 year-old with braces, stringy hair down to my waist and glasses that were way too big for my face. My limbs were skinny and gangly, so I compensated by wearing shirts three sizes too large. It was bad. Like [...]
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