The Clear Horizon

From oblivion of alcoholism into the light of sobriety

mental-health

  • Personal suffering boundaries and other people‘s advice

    Sometimes things are harder to endure than in other times. My personal suffering boundaries depend a lot on overwhelming and stressful life situations and lack of motivation, that’s for sure. In different modes and moods, I tend to react differently to things that are bugging me and stressing me out up to the point of… Read more

  • Confrontation and being confronted – The Middle of Things

    I love complicated headlines. What is it about? Well, I am a social worker and in my company we work with a concept called “confrontative pedagogy”, which in the end is nothing more than confronting clients with their responsibility and their actions but also with the resources and their potential to work out solutions for… Read more

  • No alcohol doesn‘t help. But alcohol would only make it worse

    First off, let’s identify a couple of statuses (do you write it that way?) about emotional balance: #1: In times of emotional balance, or if my basic mood has a quiet tone, there is nothing that would want me to think about having a drop of alcohol. It has become an automatism not to drink… Read more

  • My rules, my routines – why Self reliance is so important in neuro divergence

    There is an issue I have been pondering on for as long as I have had been working with youths and kids, and something that I can relate to personally: Self reliance and exterior influence in combination with task and problem solving. As neurodivergent folks, we all need, even more than other folks, a structure… Read more

  • When is one brand good and another bad? And what does identity have to do with it?

    We all need to relate to something. But the thing is, everyone has their own way to relate to something, right? I used to love Glen*** Scotch Single Malt (which, sometimes, I miss dearly). But why is that? Why do I still miss the taste and feel of a Glen*** Scotch Single Malt with a… Read more

  • Most disturbing personal Horror

    Sometimes diving too deep into the Rabbit Hole has something in stock that’s really messing up and shaking the very foundations of my resilience systems. Not in terms of falling back into toxic habit loops or alcohol abuse, but something that keeps my psyche on its toes for longer than I would like to: Bad… Read more

  • The Bad Advisor is really Nyarlathotep

    Here is another practical example of how the work on Journaling RPG and incorporating it into short stories or – in this case my revelation came with – a ballad. The idea was to work with a different approach and I am still working on the visuals. At the moment, I only have some draft… Read more

  • How the death of my uncle offers a quantum of solace

    This is a pretty personal note on an incident that just happened recently: My uncle died, and although he wasn’t that close to me and my grief has its frontiers, it has a couple of implications about my own finiteness of life. First of all, I am in a current state of reevaluating and restructuring… Read more

  • Is AI making us deliberately stupid? A Word on digital dementia

    I don’t know what it particularly is, maybe a drive towards high level activating activities to boost dopamine release, but I love to dive into controversial discussions. There have been a lot of things passing through my system during times of teaching and working as a social worker, at the same time when I was… Read more

  • Defeating self expectations, or self defeating expectations?

    Here we go again. Seeing the logo of my podcast host service alone pushes up stress levels. Why is that so? Well, it’s all about motivation and in turn over exaggerated expectations generated by it. The problem arising is a recurring pattern in ADHD, enough to make a Cosmic Horror short story out of (and… Read more