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Antidepressants don’t work, You just hate your job

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Antidepressants don’t work, You just hate your job. @shantellewrites After years of neuroscience research, I began this blog once I found my beliefs validated by Johann Hari’s book: Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope. Years later, I finished it after working about 5 more jobs. I had to start a new job before I completed this blog—to double-check I’m writing it ‘Wright’.  Depression doesn’t mean something’s wrong with you.  “Depression is the body saying, ‘Fuck you! I don’t want to be this character anymore.’” - -   Jim Carrey,  Depression is a call to Deep Rest. Who’s Not Acting? In low-paying jobs, you do the MOST WORK with the MOST SURVEILLANCE. The more you get paid, the least likely you are to take drug tests, punch time clocks, and beg for time-off. You get paid to think. You are a better person. In Jerry McGuire , Dorothy Boyd says to her son: “ First class, that's what's wrong. It used to be a better meal, now it's a better life...
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Use Me - Best Way to feel better--Be of SERVICE to someone else.

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I finally found it

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I Finally Found It @shantellewrites August 6, 2025, 9:20pm Nothing can come in between me and writing this piece. I can’t answer a text, nor respond to the email you sent me about loving this quote. Cuz otherwise it might not get written. It might be too unbelievable to a writer with “work-PTSD” (a term coined by me). [1] Unity The People in this office are United. They are 1. A Seat at the Table Accountability Teams Work-Life Balance Wellness and Stretching Gifts before Dishonor Annie (1982) | Tomorrow Lyrics "Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance." ~Verna Myers They got it. The quote is from the Diversity and Inclusion slides in our elearning. You know every job has a set of digital lessons that bore you to death, but guarantee you at least the first paycheck. These videos are different. These videos match the vibe of the people. The people at this office truly smile at me. The people at this office are all shapes, sizes and colors in al...
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The Scary Bridge

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The Bridge [1] @shantellewrites June 28th, 2025, 9:21PM This is the scariest bridge I’ve ever crossed in my life, so I knew I’d write about it one day–while I was still on it. Before I pulled off, I selected the blue map route furthest to the right with the shortest time. Now I know, if you don’t see highway route icons, and just a blob of green, you won’t be driving anywhere near civilization. I took twists and turns onto dirt roads and was tempted to push the gas to 100, to speed by the endless corn fields and farmhouses.  As I twisted and turned down roads with no streetlamps, the sky seemed to turn black in an instant. There was no one really driving on these back roads late at night, except for what I assumed to be the occasional local. I found comfort driving behind someone who knew the way, focusing on their headlights instead of the tall menacing trees and darkness that surrounded me. Not looking up, I followed the lights about 2 cars ahead of me onto a narrow road. There’s...
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Scan🚦& Go💨

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  Scan 🚦 & Go 💨 @shantellewrites short reflection on Quitting a Job Day 1. May 28th, 2025, at 10:23PM (my daughter’s birthday) I ain’t even wait this time, I just let go. See the other night I typed a list of all the jobs I ever worked from the time I got my city permit to work before 16. Starting with getting fired on the very last day of camp, I continued the pattern to age 41, having worked 30 jobs and fired from 15. I changed the font color to red for the fire. This time, I made it through Day 1 training and was sent home with an appetizer of chicken nachos. They wouldn’t even let me pick my own app. I quickly saw the social structure and confirmed I was more than likely hired for my good looks and pleasant ass. Waitressing is like stripping with your clothes on. “ Don’t stiff me, Daddy. Tip me.” I never quit without a fight. I studied the training packets and made mnemonics to memorize the liquors. I scanned the menu and let ChatGPT make me an app. I spent $1 to play a...
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“I’LL SUCK THE SOUL OUT YOU!”

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QUICK THOUGHT: “I’LL SUCK THE SOUL OUT YOU!”   @SHANTELLEWRITES FEB 8, 2025 Reflecting on my man’s comments about why men finally settle down. FLESH OF MY FLESH, BLOOD OF MY BLOOD Genesis 2  | ADAM AND EVE 15  The Lord  God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16  And the Lord  God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17  but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” 18  The Lord  God said, “It is not good for the man  to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 19  Now the Lord  God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20  So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the w...
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