Tag: depression
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Falling into Hole: An Unexpected Experience with Depression
Depression is a tricky monster, one that climbs in from the shadows when you least expect it, and then plunges you into a dark hole with no visible escape route. It strikes indiscriminately. For me, the monster made a return visit about a month ago, coinciding with what would have been my dad’s birthday, which…
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Three Things I Wish I’d Known About My Mental Health
Have you been asked the question: “If you could go back into your past and do things differently, would you?” I have, and while I definitely wish I could change past events and decisions, I know that I am in the place I am in now because of those choices. I wouldn’t change my history,…
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How Journaling is Helping Me to Manage My Mental Health
Stating that I’m managing my mental health feels like I’m tempting fate. For years I have lived in fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I can point to examples of days when I’ve felt on top of the world with all the happiness, times when the depression and anxiety were just shadows…
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In the Existence of Mental Illness
Book Review The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva Amy is existing. She goes to work, makes excuses to avoid happy hours, and moves through life while knowing that simple existence is not right. She has something, a voice, a compulsion, a suffocating threat to any semblance of the life she used to have.…
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Overthinking About You: A Read-Along
Mental health is a passion for me. I struggle with severe mental illness (SMI), as I’ve shared on here before. But mental illness doesn’t just impact the diagnosed; it impacts their loved ones and anyone close to them. Mental health and relationships come with their own sets of challenges. I am so grateful for my…
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