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23 results in articles and videos for “mental health”
- ArticleReflection
I Do Not Owe Anybody a Finished Version of Me
Healing in public means telling the truth about the middle. Ryan Nichols on PTSD, faith as endurance, and why he will not perform a finished recovery.
- ArticleReflection
Calm and Numb Are Not the Same Thing
Calm costs you something. Numb costs you nothing, and that is how you tell them apart. Three behavior checks I run on myself, and why the goal was never to stop feeling it.
- ArticleReflection
Somebody Called Me Before They Called Anybody Else
When you survive something in public, strangers start calling. Here is what I can actually give them, and what I finally stopped trying to carry.
- ArticleReflection
Nothing I Caught Today Went in the Truck
I went fishing and kept nothing. Why a man who scores his own day needs one hour a week that produces no evidence at all, and why rest is a command and not a reward.
- ArticleJanuary 6
Twenty-One Days Apart. One Got a Number. The One About My Lawyer Did Not.
January 8, 2022: a grievance about mail got a number and was marked resolved. January 29, 2022: a grievance about being denied access to my attorney never got a number and never got an answer. Same jail, same month, from my own grievance lo
- ArticleReflection
The Ten Minute Thing I Have Not Done in Three Weeks
Some tasks are not ten minutes of work. They are ten minutes of work plus a decision you have not made yet. On avoidance, self-blame, and knocking anyway.
- ArticleJanuary 6
The Grievance Log Starts in November. The Complaints Started in September.
My formal jail grievance log has 29 entries. My own tally of what I was complaining about counts 78 non medical complaints, and it starts fifty five days earlier. Here is the gap, and what I am asking the jail to produce.
- ArticleReflection
My Body Knew the Date Before I Did
Some mornings I wake up braced and nothing happened. Anniversary reactions, what I stopped arguing with, and the three small things that carry the day.
- ArticleReflection
A Quiet Week Still Feels Like a Setup
Six ordinary days in a row and I spent them bracing for the seventh. On hypervigilance after hard years, what it costs, and letting a good day just be good.
- ArticleReflection
I Prayed on a Day I Did Not Feel Anything
Feeling is weather. Showing up is a decision. Why I stopped grading prayer on how it felt, and what I do on the mornings nothing comes back.
- ArticleJanuary 6
Non-Grievable: Seven Grievances To See My Own Discovery
Seven times in four months I filed a grievance to see the evidence in my own case. Four got no response. One came back NON-GRIEVABLE. Here is the log, row by row.
- ArticleReflection
Sweat Equity Saturday
One hour of real work leaves the job done and your head quieter. Here is the sweat equity menu of seven projects that pay you twice. Pick one and go.
- ArticleReflection
I Stopped Giving the Armored Answer
Good. Busy. Cannot complain. I learned that answer somewhere dangerous and kept it long after the room got safe. On armor, honesty, and the true short answer.
- ArticleReflection
A Quiet Week Is Not a Warning
Nothing went wrong all week and I still kept bracing for it. On hypervigilance, daily bread, and learning to actually have a good stretch instead of guarding it.
- ArticleRyan Outdoors
Ryan Nichols and the Quiet Discipline of Getting Ready Before the Water
A warm Ryan Nichols outdoors article about rebuilding through preparation, honest maintenance and one useful next step before the water.
- ArticleJanuary 6
Thomas Frank Sibick J6 Case Record: Detention, Three-Count Plea, 50-Month Sentence and Full Pardon
Thomas Frank Sibick’s sourced J6 record: charges, detention appeal, three-count plea, 50-month sentence, full pardon, release and firsthand interview.
- ArticleThe Story
This Site Is My Life's Work. Here Is All of It.
People ask me what this website is. Is it a J6 archive? A news site? A business? A diary? It is all of it. Because it is my life. And I am done telling my life in pieces. ## Where it starts I was 14 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit. Tha
- ArticleJ6
The Record They Kept: 1,463 Days, Ten Facilities, and the File I Built From Inside
They took me on January 18, 2021. Between that day and the pardon on January 20, 2025 — 1,463 days — I was held across ten federal and local facilities. What follows is not my memory of it. Memory can be argued with. This is the file: every
- ArticleLegal Spotlight
"Hope You Don't Die": The D.C. Jail Officers Who Should Be Investigated
A first-person account of the corruption, abuse, and torture I witnessed inside the D.C. Department of Corrections — and the officers who need to answer for it.
- ArticleReflection
A calmer direction
I've been through a lot in the last few years. January 6th. Prison. Pardon. Business damage. Family damage. A lot of pressure, a lot of anger, a lot of distrust. I'm taking this season to heal. To get my head right. To rebuild the things th
- ArticleTexas News
New World Screwworm Is in Texas: What Livestock Owners, Hunters and Pet Travelers Need to Do Now
New World screwworm is confirmed in Texas. Learn the warning signs, reporting numbers, live maps and Mexico's August 3 pet-travel document rule.
- ArticleRyan Outdoors
Ryan Nichols and the Quiet Work of Rebuilding Outdoors
A warm, honest look at how simple time outdoors can support Ryan Nichols' rebuilding through attention, movement and one practical next step—without treating nature as a cure.
- ArticleMotivation
You Do Not Need a Perfect Day: Start With the Next 15 Minutes
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed? Use this practical 15-minute reset to choose one controllable action, rebuild momentum, and move forward with faith today.
In the case files
59 matches in the record for “mental health”
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Documents (57)
All 57RRJ Inmate Grievance: 1265 minutes lost rec week 2 (10/24/22)
…partially illegible. Mentions prolonged lockdowns affecting mental health.
Returned Grievance Form 10/20/22 (Control 032562) - Zoloft
…ichols Zoloft grievance. States while incarcerated, medical/mental health/jail physician serve as PCP and decide medical protocol. Re…
Inmate Grievance Form 10/12/22 - PTSD/Zoloft Discontinuation
…Nichols (ID 2022/663, C4/18) on 10/12/22 grieving denial of mental health meds. States he was diagnosed with PTSD, on Zoloft for over…