Thursday October 23, 2025 | Stress Triggers: "What are your main sources of stress? What triggers your stress?

I can think of several sources.  Yep, you guessed the one sittin' up on teams right now. yup. Jason!  Also, the news and the weather.  I try to limit watching the news and weather-related news unless it is important, and, plus, President Trump is doing crazy things.  I really don't want to know what the news/weather what other people are doing.  I know it would trigger me. Everything triggers me.   I have this dream that I would wake up one morning and turn on the news, and WORLD PEACE would break out.  Actually, every year on Christmas Eve, I would go out and look up at the stars and think I want world peace.  Well, if I keep going out and looking up at the stars and wishing for world peace, maybe this time it will happen.   Well, what I really want to say is I was bullied from elementary to junior high and high school. I know what it is like for people to bully others.  I don't remember people calling me names in elementary school, but I did have a bodyguard. She is my friend on Facebook and my childhood best friend.  That is two people, by the way. Two bodyguards.  I am really grateful for all the times that they protected me throughout grade school or up until I went into the hospital in Galveston.  I knew what was going on. From the moment that my childhood doctor said "she has selective mutism".  I can swear that I did not know what selective mutism was, neither did any of my doctors back then.  I know what led this on, but I decided to look up selective mutism on Wikipedia back in 2012.  I told my mom that selective mutism is a severe anxiety disorder. You know what she told me?  You don't have anxiety.  Or more specifically, you don't have that.  That really angered me, but I believed her.  And now I have other anxiety disorders, such as panic disorder.  This is why I am taking Hydroxyzine as needed.