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Addiction to the Internet causes Psychiatric Disorders
For the last so many years, almost all countries are facing an increasing number of internet users. Especially in the youth, almost all the youths are having an addiction to the internet, likewise, they use watching pornography, playing the excessive game, texting entire day, and emailing. These all are having effects of psychiatric symptoms on excessive use of the internet. So I'm going to tell you about the physiological disorder which is caused because of this, how it affects our body.
By sachin pandit5 years ago in Psyche
ADHD Isn't a Joke—It's a Struggle, and a Gift.
“ADD isn’t real,” he said with a smirk. “It’s just a nice way to explain why our kids misbehave.” The natural smile that had been illuminating my face suddenly went into rigor mortis. He said…ADD…isn’t real?
By Alexandra Corlett5 years ago in Psyche
The Sound a Cuckoo makes
Staring at my son is a favourite pastime of mine. Not because he is a particularly pretty boy, his scruffy hair and thin limbs make him look rather farcical. Nor is it because I feel a father’s love for the boy. I’m used to his presence and his habits to the point of familiarity; but I do not feel great affection for him. Even now watching him bend his pinkie and thumb away from his other fingers until they are parallel with his wrist, he’s double jointed which is supposedly fascinating, no warmth bubbles in my chest at his simple smile. Instead I feel a heavy heat pressing against my skull.
By Tim grech5 years ago in Psyche
What To Do When The World Feels Like Too Much
It’s fairly common for people to get overly stressed, to feel like it’s one thing after the other and we are just going through the motions. I know I have days, even weeks that feel like this. If it’s not work that’s stressing me out, it’s a personal issue either involving mental health or something involving a friend, family member, or partner.
By Allison Schafer 5 years ago in Psyche
Better Now
Today I am very happy. I see a light and I’m following it and smiling every day. I want to write a book, I've started but theres not really a great central focus point. I hope one day I’ll be able to tie it together to help people who go through things like what I went through in my head.
By 5 years ago in Psyche
I'm a strong woman, right? So how did I end up here?
I was never really blind-sided. I didn’t just wake up one random brisk frosty morning in the middle of winter in a completely different world. A painful world. A toxic world. A violent world. Days of chaos and manipulation. Manic highs and frightening lows. A heart full of despair, loneliness, love and hate. A constant cycle of revenge and forgiveness that spiralled into a reality I no longer recognised as factual. A thousand different emotions fused together as one unimaginable weight crushing my chest. My mind spinning, overthinking, seeking solutions as it desperately tries to fight the emotions in my heart to find a way out of this mess. But my mind knows. It’s always known.
By Jodi Nicole5 years ago in Psyche
Shattered
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The edge of the precipice is such a fragile thing; teetering but managing to maintain your balance, just thus. To both sides holds the unknown, though you can feel the madness emanating from the beyond; the tightrope holds familiarity, clutching to it as your only means of sanity.
By Finn River Clemons5 years ago in Psyche
My windowsill monster
In all the days I've sat and watched other's lives go by, I never once thought to consider my future or my present. It's usually just my past sat across the windowsill from me forcing me to look away from the sunset outside the window and listen to the hurtful words and memories it throws at me.
By Giuliette Alexandria 5 years ago in Psyche
50 Reasons to Stay.
I know the feeling of being tired and not knowing if there's life beyond the struggle you're facing today. I know what it's like to desperately search for answers and reasons to go compared to reasons to stay. I know how weird it feels when you finally break and ask the ones you love if they would notice if you died or how they would be impacted. Though my struggle is different from yours, we share the feelings of doubt, hopelessness, frustration, curiousity, sorrow, and shame. We have the same question, and we just want an answer that isn't cheesy. Reasons to stay alive...Are there any? I've compiled a list of 50 reasons to stay. 50 reasons that convinced me to stay.
By Amanda Jenkins5 years ago in Psyche
Being Here
I don’t know when I first started having suicidal ideation, but I know that it’s been a part of my conscious thinking for over half of my life. I’ve had times where I was really terrified and somewhat relieved to think that I was going to be a suicide. I still struggle with it today, but it is much easier for me. After years of traditional and alternative therapy, I have found new ways to cope with my suicidal ideation. Here are just a few:
By Carley Juel Stanley5 years ago in Psyche
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What's it like having Generalized Anxiety Disorder? I am tired all the time. Literally, all the time. When I wake up in the morning, it's not actually morning. Since the pandemic started, my wake up time has been gradually becoming later and later. Right now it's standing at around 2pm. Not having a job to go to certainly has encouraged me to stay up later and later at night, but it's not for the reasons you might think.
By Neriphina5 years ago in Psyche
Saving people from a burning house in Mexico: My own baptism of fire
Dangerous, deadly situations have a special power of slowing time down. They bend time in the most mysterious ways, really. How else to explain how after, the situation drags on so that weeks later you're still experiencing it as if it were happening right now.
By Celesdina Devi5 years ago in Psyche