wilwheaton

I’m having a bad mental health day.

Well, I’ve been having a string of bad mental health days.

Ten weeks or so, it seems, and every day is a battle just to get up and face it.

I’m paralyzed by a fear of failure, and that fear is stopping me from creating anything that matters.

Hell, it’s preventing me from creating anything at all.

So...
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1. I'm copypasting this from Tumblr, because it's helpful to me, and I hope it will be helpful to some of you:

"Be wary of those who claim if you don’t trust them, you’re hurting them.

"Be wary of those who insist you are obliged to give them more than they offer in return, and if you fail to do so, you’re not doing enough....
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I meet a lot of young women at conventions who have the scars of self-harm on their arms.

I want to be sure that if I'm saying or doing anything when I meet these people, it is helpful, kind, and loving.

So do I say nothing at all? Like, when I've met people who have dozens of scars on their arms, it feels strange not...
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I’m having a bad day. It happens. So I take my own advice for people who are having a bad day, and I get out of my house. I go for a walk. I work hard to push negative and hurtful thoughts out of my head, and I replace them with positive things. It’s little observations at first, like the trees are starting to drop...
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The world doesn't just happen around us. The world is what we make it.

We only get one life, and how we spend that life is entirely up to us.

What do you choose to do to make your world -- which you share with the rest of humanity -- the place you want it to be?

I keep reading speculation about why "moderate" Republicans have all fallen into line behind Trump.

Yeah. About that.

They didn't have to fall into line. They were already in line. Just look at the inexplicably-described "moderate" Republicans who voted to take healthcare away from their voters, who voted to reduce the tax burden on the ultra-rich at the expense of the middle class, and who...
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I went to the LA show last night, and it was really great. There are some new numbers on this tour that will blow your mind, and HOLY SHIT @liryc is just *captivating* when she is on stage. She has a stage presence that is just phenomenal, and she stands out in an already fantastic cast.

They didn't do a curtain call, so I don't...
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Almost two years ago, I was inspired by all the kids riding bikes in Stranger Things to write a post about a thing that happened when I was the same age as those kids (12 in 1983), and I was riding my bike with my friends.

While I worked on that blog post, other memories from the same time began to percolate up through the...
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I've been learning to do the Bob Ross style of painting, even though I have literally zero ability to draw or paint or cut up construction paper or even follow a paint by numbers.

I've done five canvasses since I started. This is my fifth, and it's the first one I'm legitimately happy with. Even though there are parts that have room for improvement, I...
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