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Most recently published stories in Psyche.
Are you Depressed?
Depression is Mental turbulence that rips your mind and soul into “bits and pieces”. And people nowadays think that it's just a mental illness just like common cold and flu. And how common does it? One amongst four in a family? I can bet you if you have been ever into depression you must have felt suffocation even in a properly ventilated room. It feels like someone is blocking your windpipe. Sometime you felt anxiety attack also. And it's really difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, they often confuse it with sadness. I know sadness it's different. Sadness is to cry and feel.
By Ink Analytica6 years ago in Psyche
This I Believe
I believe that you can be both happy and sad at the same time. I believe that you are capable of experiencing two emotions at once, even if they are polar opposites. I believe that you can experience two emotions while only recognizing one. Happiness and sadness do not necessarily coincide with each other. They can both live but never meet. On the flip side, happiness and sadness constantly walk hand in hand. They can reside beside each other in the same room. There are some nights you feel alone and all the sadness and remorse in your life fills you up. It expands into every crevice, every nook, and cranny, every inch of your body. Something happens though, maybe little, maybe big. It shines a patch of light and for while you still see the sadness, but you experience the happiness and soak up every last drop. And in that moment, it’s the best you ever felt. You feel like you are in two places at once. You feel like you are at opposite ends of the solar system. You feel stretched beyond capacity, beyond your breaking point. It builds up this high and you cannot get enough. When there is hardly any happiness left it clashes against the sadness and creates this sonic boom and a wall of insanity runs through your body and it's over. You lie on your bed numb and basically emotionless and you can’t get a clear thought through your mind. The music that once played ever so softly pounds in your ear and your blood pulses through your body at the same beat. During this time, you couldn’t be bothered. You just sit in peace before the sadness comes back and it all repeats again.
By Caroline Davis6 years ago in Psyche
My Prayer
1-800-273-8255 By Logic Is the only prayer I will ever need. I don’t believe in God but I have faith that there is Karmic energy placed on earth to help aid you in life. This song is my constant reminder that I am not alone and that I have to hold on. I suffer from severe mental illness and I am hospitalized at least once every year. If I had this song come out when I attempted suicide three times I would have called this number instead of trying to take my own life. Now I turn this song up and I let my prayer be heard and remind myself why I have to hold on and that if I can’t hear it anywhere else I can hear it in this song.
By Strom Gray6 years ago in Psyche
The Effects of Alcohol and Drugs on the Teenage Brain
Your brain is who you are, it’s what makes you, you. You wouldn’t be able to speak, breathe, move, or feel without your brain; so why damage it? When drugs enter the brain it interferes with everything, which can eventually lead to it changing how it works overtime. This also means you are at high risk for addiction, a serious disease that can ruin your entire life, even with the littlest amount of drugs or alcohol. Teens don’t know the dangers drugs and alcohol can do to your brain or the fact that you’re slowly poisoning your brain when you are consuming these harmful substances. In the long run, drugs and alcohol will ruin your life permanently; a little can do a whole lot.
By Savanna Moore6 years ago in Psyche
Crisis Communication and Emergency Hypnosis Advice from A Hypno Dom
When someone is the victim of physical trauma such as a car crash, an act of violence, an accident, or disaster, or witnessing traumatic actions in riots, that person is existing in a highly focused, absorbed and emotional trance state. How that person is thinking is not going to be logical as they enter into survival mode. A person will respond to direct literal statements but may be unable to consciously process everything if their emotional intensity is too high. It takes training, support, and consistent feedback to operate under extreme stress, and those who do well have practiced several plans. Those who do well know how to access a situation and can work with what they have. This article will post basic principals to keep in mind that trained professionals from the dungeon to the solider get drilled on.
By Joseph Crown6 years ago in Psyche
What Is Toxic Masculinity?
What do we mean when we are talking about “toxic masculinity“? Despite the recent attention to the term in the last few years, it actually was coined in the 1980s and 90s. The concept came about from various men participating in male-only workshops, drumming circles, and retreats to reconnect and redefine what the true nature of protective masculinity looks like. The concept of a single type of masculinity has actually been rejected since the last 1980s. There are many types of masculinity and most of them are not considered to be toxic.
By Teela Hudak6 years ago in Psyche
Don't speak.
At the time, I thought it was alright. I thought I was the one for you as you to me. Then my worst nightmare happened. My world went from bright to dark over a course of 4 years. I never believed you would actually hurt me until one day you looked at me as if I were nothing to you... The look in your eyes scared me and when I ran you grabbed me and asked "Where are you going?" and I passed out. That's how hard you hit me. The next day at school you acted like nothing happened but how can I? How am I able to just smile and be fine with knowing you hit me and constantly thinking when it's going to happen again. I was so scared and eventually it was like clockwork being with you. I wrote down in my diary how often you would hit me and honestly it could make a book along with a sequel.
By Lexi Nicole6 years ago in Psyche
Bad news and Gratitude
Another sunrise in North America. Fuzzy vision met with the subtle call from a small dead screen on the side table. What is the date? What time is it? An anonymous spine fuses to the coils shaping the mattress. Consciousness returns, in lieu of life. Another day.
By Deborah Alice6 years ago in Psyche
My Almost-Suicide
If you know me or have followed my journey here on Vocal or via social media, you know that I struggle with multiple mental health illnesses, and I’m doing okay right now. For most of you, it probably seems like I’ve been okay for most of my life. Now, if you REALLY know me, and most don’t, you’d know that I’ve thought about committing suicide more than once. As mental health awareness month comes to an end, I felt inspired to share a story with you that not many know.
By Shaley Speaks6 years ago in Psyche
