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My Life with Numerical Dyspraxia
This article started off being about how I use maths in everyday life. Then It quickly progressed into how I cope with being numerically dyspraxic. It’s not something I really talk about but I’ve shared my experience in the hope that someone out there reads it and doesn’t feel alone like I did for many years.
By Carrie4 years ago in Psyche
Four Reasons Why You Should Learn to Accept And Appreciate ‘Change’
I remember wasting my time trying to fix a relationship that has fulfilled its purpose because I was unprepared to willingly accept change and move on with my life. Frustrations and undue stress have always been the outcome each time I resisted change and tried to create an imagined preferable reality for myself.
By Madoc M4 years ago in Psyche
Five Simple Ways To Manage Anxiety
Before we dive in, let me explain briefly about anxiety. When we face anxiety, we develop excessive worrying and uncertainty about a situation. It is caused by our body’s natural response to stress. Let’s say we are preparing for an important event, we might develop a thought like, “what if things didn’t turn out well as expected?” At times, these thoughts multiply and increase anxiety.
By Dharan Murali4 years ago in Psyche
50 Shades of Self-Awareness.. Top Story - November 2021.
Hello. I am so glad you are here. I have something POTENT to say about healing from trauma. What I have discovered is that we are all just onions and our traumas are buried deep beneath the layers of who we 'think' we are.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
Jaded Savior:
Bowen Jean M., Beloved wife, mother, mental health advocate, and writer. November 5th, 1990 - November 12th, 2021 Service to be held here in the moment, to put the past to rest.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
I Am Somewhere Else
I’ve always had a fairly healthy imagination, I think, but at the height of the pandemic and the stay-at-home orders, I began going somewhere else in my mind. And the habit has not let up with the viral stats. It seems to have settled in, taken root. I don’t even have to close my eyes to leave, barely have to flick a switch in my brain. I feel it pulling when I so badly want to stay present, to listen to every detail about Harry’s pet dragon-tyrannosaurus-unicorn on the way to preschool dropoff in the morning. But I can feel myself slipping. I have created a dangerous and seductive exit. I know that it is selfish, that the people I love deserve my full engagement, especially in the little, in-between moments when slipping away feels so natural, so good. But then I defend it: is it simply survival? I have convinced myself that escaping has saved me from losing my mind, maybe for good, more than once. When the ugliness of the world opens up and we are able to peer into it, the deep rotting chasm, are we expected to take it all in and walk away unshaken, untouched by that sinister side of our collective truth? I think, with eyes wide open, we have to cope in order to survive. The answer may be as simple as that. But I still feel guilty.
By Brooke Hamilton Benjestorf4 years ago in Psyche
What Brings Me Anxiety
I have an anxiety disorder. It comes to me with a tight chest and I feel like I lose the ability to take a deep breath. This used to happen to me all the time as a child, but I didn’t know what to call it. I would get scared that I couldn’t breathe properly and it would make me more anxious. As a kid, I had no one to go to with my anxious feelings, but thankfully as an adult, I have learned some tools to help guide me to calm.
By Melissa Steussy4 years ago in Psyche
Pete's Diner
TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS SEXUAL ABUSE There are layers of myself that sometimes I do not even recognize. At the surface and where the top layer resides, are my deep routed fears and anxieties. The flaws, as I would call them, that are naked and vulnerable for the world to see and underneath? Under all that fear and anxiety lays another feeling all together that I fail to recognize daily. That feeling is called anger. That kind of anger that turns everything into a blind rage. The kind of anger that causes one to turn to the world and ask why? Why are there so many unjust and cruel things happening in the world? What was the point on living in a world where only the cruel could find their way to the top? I mean this figuratively and quite literally; I say this because as of twelve months from today my world had stopped turning on its axis. Twelve months may appear to be long for some and those who could never possibly understand, would even argue that’s it’s too long of time to dwell on anything. Let me just re-emphasis that one important fact, they could never possibly understand.
By Sammy4 years ago in Psyche
Those With OCD May Be Aware of Their Own Symptoms but are Helpless to Stop Them
Disclaimer: Although I have personal and professional experience in the mental health field, I am not a licensed mental health professional. The information contained in this article is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. The contents of this article are not meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disorder.
By That Psych Nerd4 years ago in Psyche
Am I a Narcissist?
It's 2:00 am. I'm lying in bed staring at the ceiling. A sliver of light shines through the blinds letting in the glow from the street lamp. Usually, that would bother me since it keeps me awake, but tonight I'm not sleeping anyways so I just stare through the light that's spilling onto my ceiling. I've been home about 10 minutes. We fought. Again. Same fight. Different day. He swears I'm a Narcissist. If you asked me a month ago I'd say I don't think that can be true. If you asked me three months ago, I'd swear it wasn't true. But now, after months of the same fight, I'm starting to wonder, which one of us is right? I don't know anymore.
By Jennifer Cervantes 4 years ago in Psyche
24 Years Ago Today
I was 21 and after work, I had gone out with some friends. A girlfriend of mine was turning 21 and we wanted to celebrate with drinks. I remember what I was wearing and the bars we stopped at. This night wasn’t much different than any other besides the fact that on my way home I got pulled over and was made to do a field sobriety test.
By Melissa Steussy4 years ago in Psyche
How Can Drug Abuse Affect Your Mental Health
How can drug abuse affect your mental health? According to the National Comorbidity Study, drug abuse is the most common cause of disability from depression and anxiety disorders. Other common disabilities include restless leg syndrome, hallucinations, and bipolar disorder.
By Valentina Difilippo4 years ago in Psyche