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Justin Richardson

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I am currently on a low, fixed income and I got no shame!
If you feel like surprising me with a paypal donation, that would be awesome!

My current mood is:

The current mood of the internet is:

carpet cleaning palm beach

I'm 40yo, I live in Colorado Springs, CO. I moved here from being in Waco, TX since 2008, & Chicago from 2004-2008. I recently lost a relationship of over 15½ years, with Thomas. We had two dogs, Konica, she lived to the old age of about 17½ years old & the late Ike .
who died in late 2015. He was about 15-16 years old. I think we had him for roughly 12 years.

Now, I've got a newly adopted dog (I adopted him around September 21st. 2017), from the Waco Humane Society, He was described by them as a Blue Chihuahua Short Hair. He’s a beautiful & very rare Blue Chihuahua
I was in a relationship with the guy who I refer to as my ex as we were together for over 15 years, even though I am also a divorce'. I made the mistake of marrying someone after being brutally dumped. 🤷🏻‍♂️
I have a boyfriend of 2 years now. The pandemic has been SO trying for us.

I have traveled the world (before the Pandemic), visiting about ~26 countries on 3 continents. I have many thousands of pics from my World Travels, I communicate with a lot of family, as well as friends, both local and distant.
I don’t use LiveJournal much since the Russians bought it years ago. But it used to be one awesome site. It pretty much sucks now.
Anyway, if you guys start using it again, I will, too!

Pharaoh:


I'm legally disabled in multiple ways. I have psychological/psychiatric qualification, I also have multiple serious physical injuries, partial paralysis in my lower left leg foot, ankle, & toes; I also have numbness & hypersensitivity due to extreme nerve damage after having collapsed & ended up with Rhabdomyolysis (have had it thrice, was hospitalized for it twice). It caused serious kidney problems, kidney failure, then the kidney issues apparently can affect your hearing so I also have Tinnitus that even the ENT Dr couldn't do anything to help me with. There's no device that can help counter the high pitched noise that apparently the human body shouldn't usually be able to hear. I hear CONSTANT white noise. I also have more microvascular hemorrhages in the right hemisphere of my brain than they could count. I don't think they even tried. Apparently there's a ton of them 2-3mm in size, & I had been insisting that I have been having problems with thought processing & memory & other stuff that I just had no way to explain. Now I know I have signs of early onset dementia. Great. I have to wait months to get an appointment for a 6hr long neuropsychological evaluation.

I moderate the community groups thefishaquarium, truecrabs, and chicagolandfish.

Pictures of my remaining pet/dog are located here: My Pets

I also have a YouTube Channel called:

"Mental Health Addiction"

I share my personal experience about recovering from many years of drug addiction, in my case, to heroin. I also talk about how comprehensively addressing Mental Health issues are the key to effectively tackling drug abuse. I welcome interaction from subscribers who have any questions about my experience, or what worked for me. I am not a trained clinician. I simply use my own life experience with addiction & recovery (clean from heroin for 2 years now, no relapses), however it can be very intense, when the decision is made, the addict must truly be ready to never touch it again. That is NOT to say that a relapse is an automatic failure. NO. AN ADDICT IS AN ADDICT. IT DOES NOT MEAN FAILURE. YOU define what failure is. You can accept that it was just what your unique journey to sobriety/whatever you wish to call it, getting clean, etc, & YOU define it as a bump on the road in the journey. If you tell yourself you failed, it could turn into a failure. Yes it will make your journey a bit longer and rougher, so be kind to yourself and get through the most difficult part without relapse.

Please check it out and share it!

Mental Health & Addiction AKA MHA YouTube Channel is located here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcswM0RtI_O6O8xDzX5p3OQ

-Please share and subscribe. The more subscribers I have, the better ways I'm able to use resources to make the YouTube Channel much easier to access & use/navigate. As well as being able to do more cool stuff with the videos themselves. For example, when I have 1,000 subscribers I can make a custom URL instead of the ugly link I must use above for now.