Max Bemis by Emily Read is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 Who Is Max Bemis? Max Bemis, though still a stranger to me, is someone I’ve looked up to since I was thirteen years old.…Continue Reading
“At its crux, OCD treatment is about learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty.” - Jeff Bell
Pursuit of Perfection my mind plays tricks on me: slaving over some standard I can never achieve. it’s true! and all too believable. I am obsessive and compulsive. insert the expletive! ’cause I too avoid…Continue Reading
She said, "Boo!" and scared my demons away
Where I Was Then and Where I Am Now I’ve accomplished things over the past two and one-half years that I once thought were impossible. I’ve essentially replaced the words “I can’t” with “I can.”…Continue Reading
Every day is a sleepy struggle
My Best Days Have Yet to Come I see a scattered mind that posts & clicks online: ailing from imposter syndrome; despising his own inventions simply because he created them. I am this man! unhurried:…Continue Reading
An overwhelming desire to no longer mask the pain
When I Hate Myself the urge to cut even 15 years later, anxiously persists. desperate in those moments: I sob and moan. I plead with God. for oh – how sometimes I wish that with…Continue Reading
Intrusive thoughts don't make the person
Caveman Contemplations though sick – I am true, brave & proud to admit that my gruesome hideously invasive & cave dwelling id … now only sometimes gouges me, soullessly, like ripping me from under astonished…Continue Reading
Peak but don't stare into the past
An Inner Monologue I leapt with nothing or was it something? into the arms of the man who appraises my worth and guides me through this age-old curse; forever enthralled by the sound of love songs.…Continue Reading
Two sides of the same coin
Mostly Mr. Hyde I am so prone to despair that when I heard the news of my acquaintance’s death all I could do was fantasize and indulge in the ecstasy of the horror and the…Continue Reading
On letting go
A Love Untrue living in lust before an orgy of violence, sex and drugs: the heroin(e) addict … the one who claims: we’re “one and the same.” adhering to the standard: contemplating death as she…Continue Reading
Remembering the good with the bad
Since establishing this site and posting on HubPages, I’ve published much material relating to the people I’ve dated. However, I don’t want to be someone who is constantly writing about his exes. I don’t want…Continue Reading
