Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Psyche.

Ed and the Terrifying Brown Paper Box
The doorbell rang. Strange… I thought. No one ever really rang the doorbell these days, they usually text me they are outside. Come to think about it, that’s strange to think. We are that addicted to our mobile devices that we would rather use it to act as a doorbell rather than just as easily press a button specifically designed for this purpose.
By Jason James Batchelor5 years ago in Psyche
Healing From Within
This is my story, and no one else's. Whether I made the right choices or wrong ones, they were my choices. They made me who I am, and have taught me many valuable lessons. This is only one version of me. I still have many others. This is only one glimpse, once small, yet large part of what made me into the cynical, sarcastic, guarded person I am.
By Ang Williams5 years ago in Psyche
The Theme of My Life
Anxiety has basically been the theme of my entire life. From my childhood into adulthood, anxiety, fear and worry have all been the theme my entire life. I would worry myself sick and still do. I have to force myself to sit down, breathe like my counselor and therapist taught me and force myself to relax. Sometimes it helps me 99% and sometimes it's just a little bit of a healing balm. In the moment, it does help but before I know it the anxiety and horrible scenarios are racing and attacking my brain. I worry for my loved ones.... I worry for myself. I am TERRIFIED of being alone, of losing the people I love more than my next heartbeat. The people I would die for... what if I am... one day without them? How would I even remotely deal with that? If some horrid accident took place? I'd NEVER forgive myself to not being able to see the future. Would someone break in while I'm home alone and try to rape or attack me? Would someone randomly shoot me or a loved one? And I'm not there! With them. By their side. I cannot bear their last breath, I can't.
By Briana Marie5 years ago in Psyche
Faking a surgery
A few months ago on a Tuesday morning, at the end of April, I was at the gym. For weightlifting/strongman, I do a 4 day upper/lower split. I had just signed up for a contest set to happen June 12th, which meant my coach and I were switching from general programming to specific exercises in preparation for contest day.
By Matthew Crandall5 years ago in Psyche
My Thoughts on 'Roadrunner', the Anthony Bourdain Documentary
If there’s any word in the English language that would sum up the life of Anthony Bourdain, a ‘Roadrunner’ would be quite fitting to remember the man by. He was also a husband, father, friend, chef, writer, television host, and a cultural ambassador who made the world his oyster after many years as a cook in hot, windowless, stressful New York City kitchens. For some people, travel is a birthright that they have from a young age but for Anthony Bourdain, it was an unexpected gift at middle age after writing the excellent ‘Kitchen Confidential’ book highlighting his years in the underbelly of those same kitchens, which became a New York Times bestseller, and helped lead him into fame, stardom, and notoriety.
By Ben W5 years ago in Psyche
Why Finding Affordable Medication is So Hard
Many Americans struggled with mental health disorders long before the pandemic. But, the pandemic has pushed the nation into a mental health crisis. More than 42 percent of American adults reported symptoms of anxiety and depression to the US Census Bureau in 2020.
By Cameron Miller5 years ago in Psyche
6 Facts About Hypnosis And How It Can Make Your Life Better
What comes to mind when you hear the word hypnosis? An illusionist with a pocket watch? For me, it is the terrifying teacup scene from the movie Get Out! There are hundreds of thousands of myths around hypnotherapy, and today we are going to disprove some of them and see how it can be useful to us.
By Mindsmatter.5 years ago in Psyche
Valuable delusion
Princeton, the late 1940s. The U.S. military is interested in a solitary but obviously highly gifted mathematics student. On a secret mission, he is to decipher espionage messages that Soviet agents have hidden daily his opponents are already hot on his heels: as unscrupulous doctors, they try to put him out cold in a mental hospital ...
By AddictiveWritings5 years ago in Psyche
Paying Upfront or Until the End of Your Life
When we buy something we need to pay for it, that’s just economics and a commercial reality. Sometimes though we pay in other ways that are not commercial but commercially devastating. Compromising the moral economy has dire consequences and the currency is a lot more valuable than dollars and cents.
By Dean Gee5 years ago in Psyche
The Baptism and the Bake Sale
She sought a nepenthes… something to mute the pain… banish the memories. An analgesia of monumental proportions. Her story was markedly different. It was sadly unique. No one could identify the hardships, the abuse, the trauma, the pain, by having a conversation with her (surface), by seeing her (beauty), by meeting her (personally). There were no tell tale signs of the wrenching PTSD that lurked/lingered/proliferated beneath her outer layer, like lava within a volcano, denied by the very ones who owed her assistance.
By Jalyn Janvier5 years ago in Psyche
Pandora's Box
It starts with a small box. It's dainty and encased with a thin unwrinkled brown paper wrapping. It fits in the palms of your hands. It is easy to hide. You wish it was easy to misplace and forget about. But it follows you, no matter where you go. It is as much a part of you as the air in your lungs. As the blood in your veins.
By L. M. Williams5 years ago in Psyche
I used to be a veterinarian
Hi there, my name is Jennifer. I like to write. I don’t know that I’m very good, but I like doing it. I like language and semantics, particularly words that don’t translate well into in English. Meraki is my current favorite.
By Jennifer Regis5 years ago in Psyche