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Can I BE Any More Depressed? A Special Interest Tribute to Matthew Perry

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  “I’m hopeless, and awkward, and desperate for love!” (Matthew Perry/Chandler Bing, 1994-2004).  One of my absolute favorite quotes from Matthew Perry who played the beloved Chandler Bing on the hit 90’s sitcom Friends (1994-2004).  Anyone who knows me, knows that my comfort show since 2012 has been the show Friends (1994-2004) and the characters that I relate to the most right now are, Chandler Bing and Phoebe Buffay, played by Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow.  If you have been up to date on the news this past week (October 23-29), you know that there is a war going on in Israel, there was a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, and by the way Matthew Perry suddenly passed away Saturday October 28th at the age of 54.  As devastating as the other top stories in the news from this last week are, the news of the sudden passing of Matthew Perry hit me the most. Being on the spectrum, like I talked about for FanX, you might have a hyperfixation (or more).  I’ve bee...

Mental Health & The Spectrum

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Have you ever had a day where you feel like you are just too unmotivated to do anything? Mental health can do that to you. For years, society has been known to keep issues like mental health on the down low by basically ignoring it. We as humans are born with basic emotions. As we grow, develop, and become a member of society, those emotions grow and develop too. We also have some emotions that become an additional part of our lives as we go through different kinds of experiences. We are all born with different areas of health in our lives, such as: our physical health (the part of our health that has to do with our physical bodies like what we eat, our looks, our heart health, etc.), our spiritual health (the part of our health that we use to connect to whatever higher power we believe in and how we practice those beliefs through prayer, meditation, etc.), our sexual health (this is the part of our health that involves our reproductive organs and how we take care of them–even i...