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3 Things to Get Your Mind Off Your Agoraphobia
As you know, we've been working together on our agoraphobia for a little while now and again, I'm doing this series because I'm hitting the decade mark for my diagnosis (thanks doc, it really helped to know). I'm not going to lie to you when I say that I had never even heard of the word when I was first diagnosed, I had never heard of either of my anxieties: agoraphobia and hypochondria. But, I am not going to lay down dead and do nothing but pop pills for the rest of my life. And there is no reason you should too. Your medication is very important but it can only go so far. Other things you should do is practice some habits that you can use to get your mind off those intrusive thoughts.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Psyche
Dr. Movsesyan Therapy Services: Teletherapy and its Importance During COVID-19
Teletherapy is a modern day approach to psychology and has proven to be beneficial for many clients dealing with mental health. Now, more than ever, is a time where teletherapy is used persistently. Given the current global pandemic which is COVID-19, teletherapy provides a safe, contactless way to see your psychologist. Dr. Movsesyan Therapy Services is now offering teletherapy sessions to both current and new clients to ease their situations during COVID-19.
By Dr. Movsesyan5 years ago in Psyche
Ask the Fairies
If you write a letter to the fairies they write back to answer questions about anything from magical lore to coping with COVID-19 anxiety and even relationships. This is the first time this resource has become available to the world in the form of a regular column. Just write to [email protected] and a fairy, pixie, elf, troll, Muse, hobgoblin, gremlin or Fairy Godmother will reply. This is a FREE, unsponsored, unpaid labor of love.
By Lisa Suhay5 years ago in Psyche
The Reality of Loss to Suicide
The events of Sunday 23rd August 2015 are forever etched in my mind. This was the day that Jake took his own life and the day that time became irrelevant, as it will always seem like yesterday. I want to share something in this blog about the paramedics who attended Jake’s death, what one of them said to me and why I will be forever grateful.
By Melanie Anderton5 years ago in Psyche
A Story Of Trauma Passed Down - Love In All The Wrong Places
I lost my virginity at 13 years old on a leather couch in my friend's basement. It was the middle of the week, after school, in grade 8, I just casually had sex with a fellow classmate. I can clearly remember why I did it and it wasn't raging hormones, I actually didn't really want to have sex at all ( I was not raped, I consented) but rather to feel closeness. I wanted to feel like I was special and like I was important, you know, all eyes on me kind of thing. I thought If I gave something as special away as my virginity, then I would be seen as special in someone else's eyes. Then I may really matter to someone else.
By Amanda Giroux5 years ago in Psyche
My Narcissistic Family
Blood, in fact, dissolves in water, so, no, blood is NOT thicker than water. The word family is used too loosely. T.V shows and movies will have you believe that your family are all good people and that we should be more empathetic towards them. Pfft, why?? We see family dinners and light hearted jokes about teenage angst or having crushes. Instead my family had dinners where we only listened and couldn’t speak because of all the constant attention-seeking or jokes based around how much of a let down of a person you are in your family's eyes. I'm sorry for my pessimistic idea of family but you have to understand, I'm from a family of narcissists.
By Tamirah McGill5 years ago in Psyche
Dear Stranger
I suffer from a lot of mental and physical illnesses. I am used to getting looked at in public when people see me using things that are obviously meant for disabled people. I know I am young, but that doesn't mean that I am not disabled. I have severe anxiety and depression, as well as PTSD and bipolar, and some other issues that I am sure I will get into later. I hate going out in public, because I am always afraid of what people think of me, or say about me. Honestly, compared to the lady today, I am starting to be grateful they say it behind my back. After an awful experience at the grocery store today, I felt the need to write this in hopes that if she didn't see it, someone with her mindset might.
By Dessa Harris5 years ago in Psyche
3 Things That Will Never Help Your Agoraphobia
As you've probably seen on my channel, I have been covering things about agoraphobia as I reach the ten-year mark of being diagnosed with the mental illness. Over the years, I have tried and tested many things and methods, foods and everything under the sun. If you want to read about them in more detail, then click on the numbers and you can go back to the other parts of the series:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Psyche
Him
“Him” “It’s cold...” this all the runs through his mind while he is alone in his room, with a blanket and many layers of clothes. But in his mind he is naked, alone and afraid in a deep dark abyss where all there is to be felt is the cold and fear... immense fear... petrifying fear... in a blink of an eye he is transported away from this place to somewhere new, somewhere he is safe yet feels a great sense of danger. Chills run up and down his spine as he realizes he is back home but everything is different, not exactly upside down or right side up but titled, in a way this felt right to him. As he reaches for the coach to grab hold and take a seat the room goes pitch black... then the lights come back almost as quickly as they went out, he wasn’t alone, he could feel it, he could hear it. A whisper can be heard from his a room in the house, with great fear yet curiosity he goes to the room, as he opens the door he is shocked to see that it is himself laying in bed, with clothes on, a blanket on top and “Kevin Hart” playing on the TV, but time has slowed down, almost to a freeze, he notices that the version of himself watching the TV is smiling, he is happy, he is care-free, it is then when he realizes that he is in a dream and will wake up anytime soon... it is when he comes to this realization that he feels something... someone touch the back of his neck, a cold “hand” lightly grazed him but it felt almost as if someone had taken a machete to the back of his neck. It took him a minute to recover from the stinging pain, “Coooooome to meeee” a familiar voice whispers to him. The hallways of his home became infinitely longer, almost as if they had no end, running just made things worse, he walked for hours on end, even forgetting why he was walking until the whisper came again “giving up already... I didn’t think you were that weak, guess I’m not surprised” but this time it wasn’t a whisper, it was just a voice talking normally almost teasing him, he must have be going crazy as he thought to himself “is that me?” The voice played over and over and over again getting louder and louder every time he replayed it. After what felt an eternity he finally made it back to the titled living room, as he looks backs to look at the hallway it’s back to normal, no longer than 5 feet.
By Victor Vega5 years ago in Psyche
Through my husband's eyes...
Imagine being completely submerged in a pool of blissful love. For the first time in your life you actually know what love is. When you compare this feeling, with the relationships of the past you realize that the others only paved way for her. There is something special about her. You can’t find the words to adequately convey this - feeling? That word seems too shallow for this…
By Jessica Harrison5 years ago in Psyche
An Introduction to Transpersonal Therapy
If you'd like to listen to the audio narration of this article, it's available here. Transpersonal therapy focuses on our individual evolution as humans beyond the realm of who we believe we are. It integrates the spiritual aspects of existence and proposes that a human life can traverse through three general stages of increasing consciousness — the prepersonal, the personal, and the transpersonal.
By Deborah Lara5 years ago in Psyche
