Clashing with an oversized tiger that has been starved for a week, while you have one arm tied behind your back and are wearing a blindfold!
Meditation and Depression
Meditation is about awareness of our thoughts, taking breaths and being aware of your breath, your body, and your surroundings.
‘Why Are You Always So Tired?’
Trying to function when every thought, every muscle is screaming at us not to is life-changingly tiresome. Getting out of bed is fucking hard work.
Who am I?
Who am I, who am I trying to be? | I am lost | Living in a fantasy to bury the the reality | Making myself the mystery | A strong facade hiding the pain
Stuck In the Middle With You
Can I claw back my thoughts and feelings from the depths of therapy? Have they gone forever now I’ve allowed them the light of day?
Depression and Anxiety – The best people suffer most
Anxiety and depression is not a reflection on the person. Usually, the nicest and best people suffer most in what is essentially a cruel and selfish world.
Vanquish the Dragon: Notes on a Bad Day
A violent self-degradation rears its head today. Like a dragon over my wasteland, torching everything. It brings me to despair, emptiness. Resignation.
Depression & Anxiety: Five of my ‘Bad Habits’
A wide-open rabbit hole’s just at my side, waiting for me to trip and fall, helpless, into its grim depths of constant thought checking and obsession.
Battling with my own mind – BPD, anxiety and depression
Living with a mental illness, I’m battling with my own mind every single day and giving it everything I have to overcome it and make it to tomorrow.
Depression in College: My Experience
Living just felt like a constant struggle, like wading in the middle of the ocean. All I craved was happiness. But I didn’t realise I was depressed.
The Up Paradox
The problem with Up is that you forget, and you begin to believe that there was nothing ever wrong with you in the first place.
Dear Depression
You completely dominated my life, and I watched, helpless, from a tiny glass room inside my head. You snaked around every part of my brain.