{"id":1406,"date":"2023-05-07T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2023-05-07T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:16:18","slug":"when-darkness-descends-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"when darkness descends &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>when your head hurts<br>when there is so much chaos  inside<br>that it blanks out all rational thinking<br>random thoughts<br>swirl around<br>battering my brain cells like a raging storm<br>I try to follow one thought<br>but it diverges into a torrent flowing a different direction<br>another thought<br>and another<br>small streams<br>all diverging into a raging river of pain<br><br>pain from so many sources<br>heavy weightedness<br>my head aches<br>with weariness<br>my body drags with an unexplainable lethargy <br>I don&#8217;t know how to find the beginning<br>let alone the end<br>too many beginnings<br>they just add and add and add<br>so much more pain<br>and grief<br>to the weightedness I am feeling<br><br>a random person sees<br>my pained being<br>delivers a hug<br>causing my eyes leak with tears<br>but still holding back the rivers that want to flow<br>because those nearest<br>cannot see<br>what is inside of me<br>and I am scared<br>than if they do<br>it will horrify them<br>because it terrifies me<br><br>I try to grasp at one<br>to decipher<br>where it came from<br>but my brain sees another<br>and runs to that<br>then to another<br>until my head is so full<br><br>my hands try to hold my brain<br>the explosions of pain<br>darkness<br>weariness<br>sadness<br><br>how can I describe<br>the darkness within<br>when I cannot find the beginning<br>to begin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1892-722x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1892-722x1024.jpeg 722w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1892-211x300.jpeg 211w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1892-768x1090.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_1892.jpeg 902w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when your head hurtswhen there is so much chaos insidethat it blanks out all rational thinkingrandom thoughtsswirl aroundbattering my brain cells like a raging stormI try to follow one thoughtbut it diverges into a torrent flowing a different directionanother thoughtand anothersmall streamsall diverging into a raging river of pain pain from so many sourcesheavy weightednessmy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;when darkness descends &#8211; again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109,79,100,20,105,90,91,92,80,68,70,1,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}