Health, Both Mental and Physical
Jan. 22nd, 2015 02:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI don't know if you remember, but I've been having some issues with occasional dizziness, sometimes mixed with weakness of my right leg, for some time. In the last couple of days, I've had a bit more dizziness and some feeling of pressure in my ear, so tomorrow (well, this) morning I'm going to stop in at the campus clinic before work to see if I have an ear infection or something. Not sure if it's related to prior dizziness, but it's annoying.
I felt exhausted when I went to bed, but now I'm awake and not very tired. Frustrating. I think the noise of my phone's charger might have woken me up. It's a high-pitched enough sound that most people wouldn't notice it, and it took me some trial and error to pin down just what was doing it. I may have to plug my phone in for the night on the other side of my room if it's going to start doing that.
I'm going to make an appointment to talk to a counselor while I'm at the clinic, too. The anxiety, worry, and feelings of wanting to withdraw are not okay, and are kind of worrisome. (Worried about being worried; that's kind of funny, actually.)
[As an aside, I feel some hesitancy about talking about mental health issues in a public forum. At the same time, to not do so would be to disregard my feelings on the topic. People have physical illnesses from mild to serious, and they have mental illnesses from mild to serious. The fact that people feel shame about the latter and not the former arises from problematic social expectations that I want to actively fight. {I guess fighting problematic social expectations has become something of a hobby of mine....} If it's natural for me to make a brief note here about a visit to a doctor/nurse, I ought to do the same for a visit to a counselor.]
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Also, were I actually single, I'd be very tempted to buy this shirt in today's Woot sale. My unicycling still needs work, but I think I'm good enough at it to justify calling myself a unicyclist.
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/different-spokes?ref=cnt_wp_0_8
I felt exhausted when I went to bed, but now I'm awake and not very tired. Frustrating. I think the noise of my phone's charger might have woken me up. It's a high-pitched enough sound that most people wouldn't notice it, and it took me some trial and error to pin down just what was doing it. I may have to plug my phone in for the night on the other side of my room if it's going to start doing that.
I'm going to make an appointment to talk to a counselor while I'm at the clinic, too. The anxiety, worry, and feelings of wanting to withdraw are not okay, and are kind of worrisome. (Worried about being worried; that's kind of funny, actually.)
[As an aside, I feel some hesitancy about talking about mental health issues in a public forum. At the same time, to not do so would be to disregard my feelings on the topic. People have physical illnesses from mild to serious, and they have mental illnesses from mild to serious. The fact that people feel shame about the latter and not the former arises from problematic social expectations that I want to actively fight. {I guess fighting problematic social expectations has become something of a hobby of mine....} If it's natural for me to make a brief note here about a visit to a doctor/nurse, I ought to do the same for a visit to a counselor.]
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Also, were I actually single, I'd be very tempted to buy this shirt in today's Woot sale. My unicycling still needs work, but I think I'm good enough at it to justify calling myself a unicyclist.
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/different-spokes?ref=cnt_wp_0_8
