The loss of a loved one is an extremely private and emotional ordeal. Coping with grief and mental health at once is even more complex.
CBT #2 & thoughts on myself – Failure is a Stepping Stone
I am my own person. I live my own life and make my own future. I don’t need to hold back my future by being scared of what other people may think.
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.
Constant Replay – The loved ones left behind
Burying grief does not work. Over time, like a weed growing up through concrete, those emotions will emerge and demand to be accepted.
Holiday Anxiety
I’m not scared of dying in a fiery plane crash, but I’m in an anxious frenzy over the possibility of a stranger thinking I look weird in shorts!
9 Reasons Mothers Don’t Speak About Postpartum Depression
In our dreams of becoming mothers, we pictured it blissful and beautiful. We imagined sitting in a rocking chair, singing lullabies to a sleepy, happy baby.
The power of love – I will feel again
In moments of darkness, where I feel nothing at all, I will feel again. That’s the power of love. You can’t love when you’re dead.
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.
Resilience
Resilience is leaving an abusive home | Resilience is living in 3 homeless shelters | Resilience is what makes me | Stronger than my past experiences
18 years of PTSD
18 years of PTSD – I cry with love and with loss, shame and guilt, anger and sadness. I scream silently. For 18 years I’ve been telling people I’m fine.
My life with borderline personality disorder – BPD
to anyone reading this today, if you know anyone that has this diagnosis, please be gentle with us because we are very rarely gentle with ourselves.
“Normal” is in the Eye of the Beholder
So what if we have strange ways of experiencing the world? We are unique. Not only that, but this difference makes us very important to humanity.