Look back!
[*overbearing group therapist voice*] Hi friends!
As you know, I’ve been struggling to finish this second newsletter – I don’t really know what I’m doing with non-poetry writing*, which means I wrote and abandoned 1500 very chaotic words about dissociation. Then my cat bit a bone in my hand and it swelled up like a red balloon glove, and here we are!
So I have two other pieces to share with you instead. The first is a poem I wrote based on the BDI-II, otherwise known as Beck’s Depression Inventory, which is a 21-question assessment of depression in teens and adults (I know, boring, but hang in there).
As most of you know, I’ve had major depressive disorder for years, so between therapy intakes, psychiatric intakes, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and inpatient treatment center evaluations, I have taken the BDI-II approximately 80 thousand million trillion endless fucking times, so I wanted to turn it into something else.
To start the poem, I copied + pasted the text of the test and went from there.
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