hello mother hags! i love you both so very much, and you truly have changed my life. i struggle with severe depression, but p*og (protecting our family from legal prosecution) and, now, Berlant & Novak, are truly medicinal respites that i am thankful to God for. thank you for all that you do. i am not sure where i would be without the joy you both freely share. are there artists or writers or thinkers or performers that comfort you in hellish times? what have you been returning to? thank you for all that you do. i am weeping as we speak. - ben
I was haunted intermittently for years by the sensation that I made up all the material for my ADHD and OCD diagnosis when I was 17. But I didn’t. Do you ever have the same sensation? I wonder if it overlaps with taking ones temperature: thinking you’re worthy of examination is a prayer for something to be wrong and when the prayer is answered you feel unworthy because you asked for it?? Help me