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The Most Homicidal Thoughts
2000 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. I want to kill my dog. I don’t. Not at all. I don’t. I definitely don’t. Fuck no. But the thought jags into my head. I’m lying on the couch, watching a comedy on TV. There’s nothing connected to this sudden violence. Nothing prompting it. Nothing in the same hemisphere. And yet here it’s appeared. I see it: I’ll strangle her until she falls limp in my arms. The compulsion to do so drives me with irrefutable certainty. But I try to refute, try to tell myself…
A Shadow Creeps In
1981 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. Today in class, the teacher teaches us how to write a limerick. Five lines. Lines 1, 2,…
Heart Attack
2000 That Other Me is a series that explores the immediacy and intimacy of various mental health episodes I’ve experienced throughout my life. A small cramp in my left bicep. That’s unusual. I’ve never had a cramp there. It sharpens,…