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Most recently published stories in Psyche.

How to End It
1. First thing first, why did you click on this link? - What parts of yourself lead you to believe you don’t have the right to be here anymore? Is it your sensitivity, your forgiveness with the wrong people, or your ability to always see the good in people? Or is it your bitterness, and your apparent inability to forgive yourself for getting hurt again? Well, now’s the time to forgive yourself, you aren’t going to get anything more out of beating yourself up about it. Take some time to really think about this question. Write down your answer on a piece of paper. Explain how it explicitly means you no longer have a place here with us. It has to be at least a page, which should be no problem since it's so bad that you don't deserve to see things get better.
By Stormy Robertson6 years ago in Psyche
'Christine': A Unique Film About Personal Crisis
SPOILER ALERT: I will reveal some key details about the movie. That being said, there's a chance you'll already know some of them upfront, as they are pretty well known. Still, you have fair warning.
By Wade Wainio6 years ago in Psyche
Disturbing Frustration
Every morning, she just opened her eyes and realized that a new day began, she was afraid. It’s a new day again … Go to work again, so as soon as you realize that a new day has come, you want to extend the night, lie in bed, shelter your head with a blanket and that this new day does not begin. No, she wants to work, she likes to do flowers, collect bouquets and gifts, invent new inscriptions for cozy blankets and multicolored mugs. Several times she was affected by the sickness.
By Maryna xx6 years ago in Psyche
Recovery in Progress
My admission date to New Hope Rehabilitation Center was October 10 2019. It was the culmination of a history of persistent drug abuse (alcohol, benzodiazepines, and heroin) the untimely death of my girlfriend from a drug overdose, and the entertainment of suicidal ideation that prompted me to seek and accept help. I was referred by New Hope’s Nivi to consider Philip House as my aftercare treatment plan for a suggested 6 months upon discharge from New Hope.
By Hypodermically Speaking6 years ago in Psyche
Day 6 of Lockdown in the UK
Its day 6 of lock-down and I’m still in a state of shock, it’s hard to imagine that it was only a few weeks ago we was all getting on with our lives, I was just coming back from a course in wales, walking to the local pub to meet my daughters and planning with them our 4 day holiday in April, now everything is on hold, life has simply stopped.
By angela mckendrick6 years ago in Psyche
Depression Lives Here
I tell myself all the time that I’m happy. I have daily talks with myself, about myself. I try to drain the outside noise to focus on what’s more important, but sadly, my brain has a hard time choosing me.
By Georgette Smith6 years ago in Psyche
Daily Quarantine Checklist
If your depression presents itself anything like mine does, the self-isolation symptom could happen daily! Memes have been floating around the 'net about quarantine feeling just like any other day.
By Darienne Lewis6 years ago in Psyche
Positive Thinking
I was diagnosed with depression in 2007, anxiety in 2011, body dysmorphia in 2014, and an eating disorder in 2015 along with borderline personality disorder, ADD, and PTSD. Getting through the days was a challenge, to say the least.
By Shaley Speaks6 years ago in Psyche
My worst uni experience.
On this evening I was in my third and final year of uni, I was 21 years old and was having a particularly difficult time with my mental health. I was spending time with some friends from my course at the Student’s Union on campus, the group consisted of myself, my mature female friend whom I lived in a house share with, a mutual female friend of ours I wasn’t particularly close to, a male former course mate from the year prior and one of his male friends whom no one else knew. The five of us spent the evening drinking and chatting, having a really great time, and I was happy to escape my loneliness and avoid wallowing in depression for the night.
By D Burton6 years ago in Psyche
Purpose
What is it like to feel lost and alone and completely hopeless? How does it feel when you no longer know what your purpose is in life? Well, I can tell you. It feels like you're invisible, like nothing you do is noticed, even when it seems like you're giving it everything you've got and more.
By Shaley Speaks6 years ago in Psyche
Exile
People refer to exile as something unexplored, something that would never happen in their lives, but it can happen in a matter of a second and ruin the entire life of a human. Exile is something that, if it finds you, you won't be able to escape or hide from it, it is the confronting reality of accepting that there is nothing left but melancholic memories of what people used to know and consider their identity. Historically speaking there are thousands of cases where people are obligated to abandon what they love the most, leaving them with a single idea of what their life would be like; uncertainty, a feeling that traps people with their fears, their worries and frustration, blinding themselves with a darker perspective of what hope used to be. Exile, defined as nothing more than a personal prison, an idea that is substantially reflected through literature. The essay “Reflexions on exile” of the author Edward Said, explores the concept of what exile means today and its clear relationship with such destructive emotions, undoubtedly “The Refugee”, book written by Bernard Malamud, a supposed fictional story, has more connections with the real world and with Said's essay than with a fictional world filled with fallacies. Both texts portrait a single idea bonded with a theme, exile being a self molded prison that will chase and consume an individual’s entire life, leaving nothing more than a void that can’t be filled with a temporary and fake new place that can be considered a new home, but filled with frustration, anxiety, and fear.
By Daiana RME6 years ago in Psyche
A letter to my depression
Dear my depression, My calendar indicates that it is the first-year anniversary of your diagnosis. I am ambivalent about it. Today I stop and look at all the things you made me involuntary do, and the feelings you made my soul experience. I try to remember how this year went, but simply I can’t because you made my memory so weak that I struggle to remember any detail.
By Mohamed 6 years ago in Psyche