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How Lockdown Improved my Mental Health
I've been suffering with anxiety and depression for most of my life, which I take medication to manage. The medication helps, but I still feel the effects of my mental illness and I’ve just accepted that these issues are here to stay. As with most sufferers of mental health ailments, I fluctuate, and have good and bad days/ weeks/ months depending on a variety of factors, and pre-lockdown I was concerned that months in isolation would make me hit an all-time low.
By InfiniTori6 years ago in Psyche
My Head and My Legs - Self Harm
When I was a freshman in high school, I was two years into my parent's divorce. I no longer had anyone watching me when I got home from school, and while I did get attention from both my parents, I always felt the need to impress them.
By Kataryna Izol6 years ago in Psyche
To The Younger Who Sometimes Considered Suicide
When you were just three years old, your mother decided she no longer wanted to be a parent anymore. She wrapped you up in ill-fitting clothes and dropped you off on the steps of her brother. For three to four years, you believed you had a family. That was until you stepped off the yellow school bus on your eighth birthday and met with red, white, and blue lights of a cop car. They removed you from the only family home you could remember under false pretenses. They told you that you were going on a field trip for the weekend. It was not until you arrived at your first foster home a couple of weeks later that you learned just how not right things were. They tell you that the one person you trusted not to leave or hurt you was a monster just like the rest of them. You don’t want to believe them, but you still have nightmares about all the unspeakable acts that happened behind closed doors and the events that occurred out in the open.
By Shannon Gaskin6 years ago in Psyche
7 tips to help you through depression
10 ways that will help you when your suffering from depression. I have been suffering from depression for a long time these tips helped me through a difficult point in my life. I would like to share them with you. I would like to think I've been able to help somebody.
By Crazy story writer ✍️ 6 years ago in Psyche
Out Of The Dark
One day during probably one of the worst times I struggled with trauma, I had a daydream. I saw myself as a young child, maybe 7 years old. I was in a dark well. It looked like I had fallen so deep into the well that I couldn't see the light of day anymore. _Was it day or night?_ I wasn't sure. It was just total darkness. I sobbed and cried but nobody could hear me. I screamed for help and not a soul could hear. Nobody would come. My throat was tight, and my lips were dry and cracked. I was parched. I said and pulled my knees close into my chest. It just felt better to be crumpled up into a ball. It allowed me some body heat or at least the idea of it.
By Stacy Davenport6 years ago in Psyche
Are they talking about me?
Assume that every moment people everywhere are talking about you. The whispers and stares that people give are meant for you. This is how people with social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, feel whenever they are vulnerable and exposed to others. It is a terrible ordeal for those who suffer from this because it interrupts and restrains them for functioning properly in their daily lives. This raises a question of how something like this comes about. What are some possible causes of this and how can one overcome this? There are many apparent studies done that used social and physiological factors as possible causes of social phobia.
By Renia Pyles6 years ago in Psyche
Beating Addiction
After Addiction Road to Happiness First off everyone is addicted to something or you wouldn't be alive. Weather you addicted to steal, drugs, gambling, women, this part is unimportant. All addiction is, is our routines negatively influenced by the people around us.
By Paul Crozb6 years ago in Psyche
