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I'm doing 16 things
  

How I did it
How to get a job
It took me
1 year
It made me
Triumphant

How I did it: Two weeks ago I was hired by Target at a job fair they held.I've been working with The Department of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) for a few years and a job coach for about a year, who offered me help because of my problems with depression/anxiety that got in my way of finding employment for myself. It was nearly a year since I began seeing the job coach, and DORS wasn't really offering much help anymore, so I was beginning to lose faith… Read how I did it…

Oct 29, 10:10AM PDT | 0 comments | 4 cheers


How to be happy
It took me
7 years
It made me
Happy

How I did it: I was on medication and in therapy for depression and anxiety. They helped immensely. But I still wasn't happy. But then I joined the local college's anime club, and stuck with it even though being around people made me so anxious and fearful. And eventually, I made friends, including my amazing boyfriend. And they have changed my life. I'm not always happy, but I'm always capable of happiness--and I wasn't before. If I'm ever down I can … Read how I did it…

Jan 11, 2009, 11:22AM PST | 0 comments | 3 cheers


How to overcome depression and anxiety
It took me
7 years
It made me
Strong

How I did it: I've been on meds for depression and anxiety for three years, and they dulled the symptoms, but it was still there. A year ago I finally found a therapist I really connected with, and she helped so much teaching me to put things in perspective and get to the root of my problems. And then the thing that changed everything. It all started with the decision to join the local college's anime club. At first I was terrified, I went there and no… Read how I did it…

Jan 11, 2009, 09:00AM PST | 1 comment | 4 cheers


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Recent entries
find a new doctor (read all 2 entries…)
Appointment has been scheduled 1 day ago

I did email my therapist, and she recommended a doctor right away, and said she’d send him a fax and told me to tell the receptionist that she referred me. So I did so, and now I have an appointment with him next week! Very happy about this.

Nov 07, 09:02AM PST | 0 comments


feel beautiful (read all 9 entries…)
Untitled 2 days ago

Progress:

  • Created a Daily Beauty Regiment I have been following, and any new changes I plan to follow as well.
  • Being able to buy clothes I like and suit my style, and taking care of them by washing them myself.
  • Buying pretty panties and bras and keeping them in good condition.
  • Learning that among my group of friends I’m considered very pretty, charming and desirable.
  • Finding bath and beauty products that I like.

Things to work on:

  • More nice, pretty bras and panties.
  • Taking better care of my clothes—using clothes hangers and my dresser, using a hamper instead of leaving clothes lying around.
  • Find more accessories that match my style.
  • Find the best lotion to help my dry skin and keratosis pilaris.
  • Find the best chapstick to help my constantly chapped lips.

Nov 06, 08:56AM PST | 0 comments


gain self-confidence (read all 6 entries…)
Untitled 2 days ago

Progress:

  • Everything that has made me more independent.
  • I finally have a job! I’m not spending my days sitting at home doing absolutely nothing productive.
  • I have a wonderful, amazing boyfriend whom I adore, and is my best friend and my touchstone. Knowing I will always have him to support me and take care of me has given me so much more confidence in dealing with the world and other people.
  • I have friends now! Real friends. I have people who like me, who like being around me! People who find me interesting, sweet, funny, smart, pretty. And knowing that they do and that they are there to support me gives me so much more confidence.
  • I am secure with how I look and how I dress. Knowing I look good gives me that extra confidence.
  • I’m finally doing well in my classes. I have an A in both, and the semester is half-way over.

Things to work on:

  • To become closer to the friends I do have.
  • To speak clearly and confidently, and voice my opinion.
  • Really continue to work at my classes. Don’t lose it when everything’s going so well. And stop procrastinating!
  • Be confident and calm enough to hang out in the B-Lounge with everyone.

Nov 06, 08:22AM PST | 0 comments


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I want to:

The world wants to...

go to a great college SLEEP...sleep better, sleep longer, sleep more, sleep earlier be a mom speak spanish become more social with interesting people become more confident remodel kitchen SallyCinnamon wants to spend more time on my art wake up earlier Make a best friend become a musician wake up when my alarm clock goes off stop picking my skin Quinquin wants to try new things exercise regularly improve my spelling do a backbend talk to him become a working actress sell a photograph Go to Ireland draw more learn to play bass get out of debt complete a triathlon live on a deserted island be a size 12
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