I started Ketamine treatment in the summer of 2022, after thinking about it and researching it for several months. I found a doctor who would prescribe Ketamine to be used at home, supported by regular telehealth check in sessions. I’d already been diagnosed with PTSD a couple of years prior, but part of the process was another formal diagnosis complete with multiple diagnostic instruments. Technically, I have CPTSD, but this is not a separate diagnosis in the DSM. The n

All through the spring and summer of 2023, I had rabbits on the brain. It began with an urge to re-read Watership Down, one of my all-time favorite novels. And then, I started seeing rabbits everywhere I went. In particular, there was one who would appear in the community garden where I have a large plot, who would stay near me in stillness while I worked away. I named it Hazel after the main character in Watership Down and marveled that it did not seem concerned about m

I left my marriage by degrees in a process that took years from start to finish. We’d decided to separate at the beginning of COVID, and because of everything happening plus issues with illness in the family, we lived in the same house. I lived upstairs, he lived downstairs. We shared a kitchen. Obviously, there was a lot of “family life” happening but we were physically and emotionally severed from each other. It took over three years from the point of initial separa