Sometimes, You Need Emergency Self-Care

Everything else falls by the wayside.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
5 min readMay 5, 2024

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A woman in a bathtub eating a container of takeout noodles. Her hair is in a bun and her feet are elevated on the edge of the tub.
Photo by Artem Labunsky on Unsplash

On May 1, I finished and submitted a project that took me about six weeks to put together. It was the culmination of about four months of constant work, multiple deadlines, and so, so much stress.

That was a Wednesday this year. On Thursday, I did a few clean-up tasks for work to set me up for the upcoming…

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.