The Ongoing Chronicle
This chronicle grows with every new moment I choose to share. If you’re looking for the most recent piece of the journey, you’ll find it here — the latest story, fresh from the road I’m still traveling.
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Magoo – I’m sorry I didn’t see it.
anxiety, books, chronic, clutter, clutterer, compassion, depression, disorder, dsm-5, fear, fiction, friendship, grief, help, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, hoarding behavior, hoarding disorder, kindness, life, mental-health, mindfullness, motivational, short-story, support, therapy, trauma, unconditional love, wellness, writingThis blog is dedicated to the memory of someone I knew and loved. It involves a traumatic personal experience and is a real life example of mental illness. The story is explicitly written from my personal perspective and I purposefully avoided the use of the names of the other people in my life at the…
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As one does, I’ve been having weird conversations with friends. I speak a lot about recovery and my chronic illnesses but honestly that’s not who I am as a person, they are afflictions or parts of me that I focus heavily on because they are important to me. I have a very difficult time gauging…
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(Originally Posted in 2024, Migrated to new website November 2025) Often on my “flare days” I cannot get much accomplished. My rheumatoid arthritis simply will not allow me to do most simple tasks, let alone any heavier lifting. As you can imagine, being able to lift items larger than a pen may be detrimental to…
Ehren Ackerman 