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When Bad Medium Stats Attack
I Made a Promise to My Husband
And now I have to keep it.
2 min readDec 23, 2023
Friday I wrote a story about spending Christmas in a psychiatric hospital.
This is a true and very personal story. As of today, it’s earned $0.00 and received 6 views and no reads.
When I came back to Medium earlier this year, I made a promise to my husband. I promised the moment I began letting bad Medium stats affect my mental health, I would take a break. Seeing the stats for a story I reached into my soul to write has negatively affected my mental health.
I’ve been through this before.
As a borderline personality, I try to live my life in the gray area. I try to keep my wise mind and my emotional mind in balance. But when I see bad Medium stats…
