Author: anamemoir

  • Diagnosis

    Today, I consulted with a psychiatrist for the first time in my life. I just got diagnosed with PTSD and Bipolar. Had prescriptions today for antipsychotic (Risperidone), bipolar (Divalproex sodium), and sleeping pills (clonazepam). Three meds. lol. I will never use this as an excuse for my behavior but only sought help to help me…

  • i say every religion has its own extremists…no exceptions, ALL OF THEM, and so, i remain an omnist. no matter how dark this world can be. as a former atheist and theology student (years later), I refuse to be boxed into a single ideology now. (currently i like shintoism more tho because of its respect…

  • Poetry helps me survive. I can’t just do normal journaling because I even feel ashamed of myself. I can’t write direct words. But with poetry, everything seems to have life, even the darkest times of my life seem to have dancing auroras and nebulae.

  • TO YOU

    Crippled, the blood in my heart rippledTamed, calmer…wiser…chiseledBurn it like a charcoal burnt already but not completelyThe core screams of hunger for fireBut the night you said you love me suddenlyAvalanched same old stories of cold nights it was all a dream.

  • AURORA in Manila 2025

    “The worst you look when you dance the better it is, the more beautiful you look to the world…because the world can see that this person is free. And freedom is a very handsome thing to wear…” — AURORA AURORA Setlist at New Frontier Theater Goddess of Dusk (Instrumental Intro), Churchyard, Soulless Creatures, Infections of a…

  • Climbing Mt. Arayat

    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche A few days ago, I was so low-spirited that I even thought having reasons to live is a torture due to the pressures of life. I’d forgotten everything I learned from my last hike in Mt. Arayat. Yes, I hiked…