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Just. Pause.

Are you ever watching a movie, or reading a book, and find that you just… have to… pause?

Cee R.
3 min readApr 30, 2022

Warning: this post discusses mental health problems and symptoms

Disclaimer time: I am not any kind of medical, mental health, scientific, etc., professional — I’m a chick with a blog and some personal experience, m’k? M’k.

‘Just. Pause.’ against a static/white noise background, with a large pause symbol on the right-hand side
Graphic: author’s own, made with Canva

Are you ever watching a TV show or a movie, or reading a book, and just…

…have to…

…pause…?

Not because someone’s trying to talk to you, or you have to do something else.

No interruptions.

Just you. Pausing.

Just because… because you need to pause?

I do it a lot.

I’ll be reading or watching something, and I… just have to stop.

Like — halt! Peidiwch! Stopio! Give me a minute here, cos this is a lot! 😅

Like I need a minute or two… or even just a few seconds… to — process? I guess?

To think about what I’m seeing or reading or feeling.

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr

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