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I'm one of the ones up there, but reading the rest of these...I don't want to say it makes me feel "good", but it does make me feel a little better about how all of this has been and gone. It's hard to convince yourself that it really is "okay to not be okay", and even then that slogan only goes so far (and could use a few more words, like, "...until you sort things out"). Shit is fucked, man, and this has been an impossibly hard time we're still going through. We need a new slogan, something like, "It's alright to be alright." You know, not great, not horrifically awful, still a little fucked up but we're doing our best. It's alright, for now, and nothing lasts forever...

One other thing that I've sort of become addicted to the past couple months is the band Built to Spill's back catalog. They set a smooth fucking tone, and for a few hours if you start going album by album. Whatever else you're doing to cope, put that shit on with it and let the vibe lift a little.

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I've never had hangovers in the traditional sense; it took a truly stupendous night of drinking and not bothering to hydrate for me to ever get so much as a mild headache. But I started to wake up in the absolute most agonizing, bleak hopelessness and despair as my worst, deepest depressive episodes.

Odds are they'll be through to see their submission in print, so they should check out muh man Kinglsey. (everyone gets the Fear, friend. If it was just a headache no one would sweat it)

https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/kingsley-amis-on-the-hangover/

Fun fact until I hit college and there was literally no limit on how much I could run through my liver, I used to think hangovers were a made up myth or something only some people got in high school. Never been fitter, super fast metabolism, never been better hydrated (XC practice, you'll drink a gallon a day without trying), and yea, I'd have maybe 6-7 Buds Light at most before my ride home had to make curfew. Still though.

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