Elle White
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Combatting a Day with Depression
We all get them, low points—some worse than others. With depression, a particular low point could be paralysing...crippling. The hardest part? Not feeling like there is a way back out of it—feeling like there is no escape from how much you are hurting. But, please hold on—because there is, you just have to keep going. This is how.
By Elle White 7 years ago in Psyche
The Tragedy of Relapse
When you're spiralling so fast, your mind cant keep up. Dizzy, entranced, and then it hits you. At 8AM, when you find yourself pulling apart a razor to free the blade while sitting in the bathtub, it hits you. And you're holding the false remedy to a day you can't seem to see the end to between your thumb and finger, frozen in spot, knowing that this isn't a slip-up in recovery. You've drifted back to a place where you can't cope—a place you need to heal from quickly, because you are running out of options.
By Elle White 7 years ago in Psyche
Finishing the Fight with Bulimia
Two years ago, I wouldn't be voluntarily sitting in a coffee shop like I am now. Heck, I would be trying every move possible to not have to go to a coffee shop. And then, just for considering eating food—my goodness, the idea of it, I would need to go for a run. I couldn't go to the gym to work out, because when I started exercising, I couldn't stop again until my body made me. I either passed out, or was too weak to stand. My diet consisted of a maximum of three hundred calories per day or less. I could eat nothing all day, and still be angry and upset at myself. I exercised until my body was falling apart, starved until I was freezing no matter how many layers I wore, and lacking energy to the point where I could barely leave bed.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Psyche
Meals You Can Make in Under Four Minutes for the Lazy, Starved, and Students
You come home from a long day of procrastinating, tired and famished with no motivation to do anything but obsessively watch Friends on Netflix, sadly engrossed in their lives to the point where you believe that you are one of the fictional gang.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Lifehack
Eliminate or Manage Insomnia, and Learn to Love It
It's 3:16 AM here, and despite the levels of savagery in my not-sarcastic sarcasm and my ability to function solely relying on my dependency of strong coffee, my body refuses to allow me the basic human necessity of sleep. I'm going strong into my fourth/fifth year of being a committed insomniac, but hey, by this stage, I'm basically a pro at dealing with it so I thought I should impart some wisdom onto my fellow sleep depraved humans.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Longevity
How to Process When the Person You Love Rejects You
When he looks at you, he could stop your heart beating in your chest. There is a connection, an undeniable connection, so much so that it overwhelms you the extent to which a person can hold a power over you. Through the day, you check your phone repeatedly, discontented by anything less than a text from him.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Humans
How It Feels to Be Bulimic
As I write this, I am in a full-scale binge mode. At times like this, I am so distressed I feel as though I want to die, or as though I may die because the amount of food that I consume appears to be more than my body can take. It physically hurts.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Psyche
A Tribute to the Dog Who Saved My Life. Top Story - March 2018.
She was a scruffy mongrel my brother and I had picked out from the pound. She was the only dog that didn't look like it wanted to rip off my arm, and the only one my small frame could hold back on a leash. In excitement, we eventually persuaded our parents that this dog, this was the one.
By Elle White 8 years ago in Petlife
