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The Persuasion of Suicide Contagion
"Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion, he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."
By Alison Lyons5 years ago in Psyche
Grieving the end of Lockdown
I feel kind of insane, to be writing how I feel about this. Mainly because its 2AM and I can't sleep at all even though at 9:30 I was yawning like a housecat on xanex. I don' really know how I feel right now, so excuse this potential nonsesical explosion of words.
By Leigh Halifax5 years ago in Psyche
Adlerian
This is my paper that started my graduate school education that started with learning to be a counselor and ended up achieving a doctorate in Education, but more specifically in Reading and literacy leading to research and writing. I found out there are a lot of correlations between education and counseling in various areas. I am still interested in writing and sharing my ideas using various counseling theories. This is actually a 15 page paper that was handed in a few weeks before the end of the semester to see what particular theory that we would probably use in our practice or whatever we were planning to do in the future.
By Mark Graham5 years ago in Psyche
Ever Feel So Stressed When Someone Doesn’t Text Back?
Sometimes there is no worse feeling to someone who has ocd or anxiety than writing ✍️ a text to someone and waiting for a response back. It’s like watching a pot that never boils or hearing every tick on a watch yet not moving anywhere.
By Sadie Colucci5 years ago in Psyche
How Reading a Book Changed my Perspective on my Parenting
I have had a lot of trauma in my life. I feel I've been used and abused by most people in my life; my family, at school, romantic partners, I could go on but that is not the purpose of this post. This post is about facing some harsh realities, including accepting the fact I brought all of my hurts, suffering, poor mental health and anger into my parenting. Probably the easiest thing to do would be to say, "well, I did the best I could." The statement is as true as the day is long but it also sounds very defensive to me and doesn't really acknowledge anything or resolve anything.
By Skye Phoenix5 years ago in Psyche
Trichotillomania
Let me tell you a little story about how I developed Trichotillomania. When I was a young girl in elementary school I was bullied and picked on for most of 4th grade through 6th grade. As a young kid I didn’t really know how to handle all that pressure and stress so one day I started pulling my eyebrows out. Of course that made the bullies pick on me even more, so my mom decided to take me out and home school me for middle school. I’m so glad she did! I really hated my life at that point because of those bullies. I hated myself too, no kid should hate themselves but I really did. Eventually though as I got older I began to fully love myself and all of myself, still though I struggle... even now I struggle with Trichotillomania. So you’re probably wondering... what is Trichotillomania? Well it is disorder that involves recurrent, irresistible urges to pull out body hair. The urges involve pulling out hair from the scalp, eyebrows, or other areas of the body. In my case I pull my eyebrows out, sometimes my eyelashes and sometimes my leg hair. I know that it may sound really weird but that’s just something I do to deal with stress.
By Reba Miller 5 years ago in Psyche
The Ethos of Evil- Rapists
In 1976, Samuel D. Smithyman published a strange advertisement in a newspaper throughout Los Angeles. He was searching for rapists for his research. He was waiting for his phone to ring. He was not sure that someone would call him or not.
By Krishna V Chaudhary5 years ago in Psyche
An introduction to Mindsmatter — I Wish I Could Be Normal #1
Have you ever said to yourself: "If only I could have peace of mind, mental and emotional well-being, and control this anxiety or depression better, then I could enjoy my life, go out more, enjoy time with my family and friends, achieve my dreams, spend time with the people I love and be happy"?
By Mindsmatter.5 years ago in Psyche
Self diagnosis
Before I start, I just want to say that this is my opinion as an autistic woman that struggles with mental illness. Some people that have professional diagnosis might disagree with me which is completely fine but this is an important subject and I want to give out the informations. I do invalidate self diagnosis but I still do not recommend it.
By Alexe Robitaille5 years ago in Psyche
