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Just picked this up at my local GameXchange for a couple of bucks and I'm liking what I'm hearing so far.

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Ortiz On: Mental Health Days

Growing up as an AuDHD nerdy kid in the 90’s and early 2000’s, mental health wasn’t on the minds of the general public. As a result growing up I had a lot of my feelings invalidated by those I cared about the most and had concerns and frustrations brushed off. Also as a guy I had the usual things said to me… “Man up”, “You’ll get over it”, “It’s no big deal” etc. It was so frustrating. So for most of my life I had to have things bottled up inside of me and was discouraged from releasing it, or taking time to process my feelings and emotions.

It wasn’t until these past couple of years that I finally started to give a shit about my mental health. Going to therapy on a frequent basis.

Side note: shoutout my therapist Cody York. Dude is into D&D and is just as nerdy as I am and I love it. Literally my first email with him was entitled “A rogue calls for aid” as during most D&D campaigns I play my rogue character Antonio Bordeaux. He followed along and we hit it off from there.

Back on topic: I’ve been going to my therapy appointment on a frequent basis. Originally it was on a weekly basis, but this year my insurance changed because of my asinine employer so my appointments were more expensive…so I ended up having to scale back to every 2 weeks.

Even then I was still able to get a lot out of our sessions, and in some cases my therapy appointments would fall on days that I was off, so in essence I took a nice little mental health type day. Usually going home and locking myself in my room for hours on end.

However as I’m writing this, that’s not the case today. I’m still taking a mental health day, but I’m actually enjoying myself at the local Soul Craft Coffee Shop on the campus of the University I go to. Despite it being a smidge chilly, I’m actually feeling relaxed and enjoying myself in the process.

It’s nice to start your day getting a lot of things off your chest, and then going and doing something that gets you out of the house and around actual human beings…touching grass if you will. As someone that’s always been socially isolated throughout his life, being around other people and not having total anxiety over what they think about you is a refreshing feeling.

What I’m trying to get at here is that Mental Health Days are incredibly important to keeping yourself sane and alive, and despite what a lot of corporate suits will have you believe. You should one-hundred-and-ten percent take some PTO and give yourself the mental health day that you deserve. Especially if you were on the cusp of crashing out at work earlier in the week like I was.

Until I come on the air again,

Miguel O.

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Shoutout Nashville Public Library for having this CLASSIC available on Hoopla.

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Live look-in to me putting my setlist together for my radio show Ortiz On The Air tonight on 88.5 WTTU.

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I remembered the login!

Oh wow...I completely forgot I had this account. It's been a minute. Lemme catch up on what's going on around here, especially since early 2000's internetcore seems to be making a serious comeback. SpaceHey invoking old school Myspace vibes, Digg reviving itself, etc. I'm excited to see what's to come.

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Civic Duty Done Dusted.

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My list of "literally me" characters in media:

- Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)

- Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim VS The World)

- Arthur Fleck (Joker)

- Theodore Twombly (Her)

Just to name a few.

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*lose, but it's relatable as all hell when you work in customer service.

Me when I'm about to loose my mind for the 4th time in single day.

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