Being honest about my mental illness has played a huge role in my recovery. Once I stopped hiding my mental illness, I accepted who I am.
Welcome to my Date with Anxiety and Depression
By Gabriela Uncertainty… I’ve touched on my fear of uncertainty before. The not-knowing has the ability to deflate me and provoke an intense emotional reaction. Here I am, telling you to look me in the eyes and tell me everything you dislike about me. Be brutally honest about why you Continue Reading
Welcome To My Panic Attack
Sometimes I don’t understand my brain, and I am okay admitting that sometimes I need some help. Now I am able to recognize when I need an extra hand to pull me back up.
Accepting Who I Am… A person with mental illness
By Gabriela It doesn’t matter how medicated I am or how much therapy I attend, I will always have depression and anxiety as my right and left hand men. They won’t magically disappear, instead they become manageable. Sometimes the thought of living with them for the rest of my life Continue Reading
My Brain Loves To Play Tricks On Me, And I Love To Let It.
By Gabriela I spend a lot of my time living in the past. Obsessing over what could have been or what would have happened if I had done things differently. I live in the past because I am not content with the present and the unknowingness of the future. I Continue Reading
I’m Not Okay, But I Will Be
By Gabriela I haven’t been okay in quite a while. I like to paint a smile on my face and pretend I’m invincible, like I have all of the answers, but that’s not true. I still struggle, and I still hurt. I still get the living shit beat out of Continue Reading
You Don’t Overcome Depression, You Simply Get Better At Handling It
By Gabriela One thing that no one understands, is that my mental illness will never just disappear. It is a part of me, and I am stuck with it for life. It has become my best friend, and my worst enemy, all at once. I have no way of putting Continue Reading
Asking for help doesn’t make you weak, it proves you are intelligent
By Gabriela I did not want to see someone, no way, hell no. It couldn’t be that, I was not that messed up, I was not that weak and I was certainly not insane. Seeing a psychologist and asking for help seemed like failing. Experiencing distress didn’t mean I was Continue Reading
Being A Teenager Sucks. Being A Teenager Suffering In Silence From Mental Illness Sucks Even More
By Gabriela Being a teenager suffering in silence from mental illness sucks. Waking up every day with a mental illness is just as painful – if not more – than a physical illness. It’s confusing, debilitating, and inconceivable at times that this could be happening to me. Although I am Continue Reading
Welcome to Invisible Scars of Emotional Abuse
I was emotionally abused by someone that I trusted, and when I started to fall into misery and self-hate, I was even more blind to the damage.
A Performer with an Anxiety Disorder
By Gabriela I was once asked a question that got me thinking. It made me take a deeper look at myself and the complexity of anxiety disorder. The question was this: How can you be a performer that gets up in front of hundreds of people without a problem, yet have an anxiety disorder? My type Continue Reading
Welcome To My Teenage Brain
By Gabriela First off, let me just say hello to this new world I have plunged myself into. In writing, I hope to flicker a light inside of you that will allow you to take this journey with me in finding a way out of the darkness. I would like Continue Reading