Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Psyche.
Solivagant
Bubbles. Such wonderful little things that bring joy to so many people when they float around, shimmering in the light of the sun, free to do what they wish. They climb so high into the sky as little ones marvel at their simple creation made from a small mixture, previously bottled and sold to the eager children for pleasure—such wonderful little things. So wonderful that they also have the power to detach you from the rest of the world. Isolating you. Constricting you. Leaving you unable to connect with everything going on around you until you are left lifelessly trudging through life with no hope or glory to your name. Just an existence. Not a life.
By Bella Higgins7 years ago in Psyche
Healing Is Not a Yoga Pose
One thing that I cannot stand about this "inspiration culture" that millennials have created is that we beautify healing. My generation has made everyone (mostly each other, really) believe that it’s so easy to heal. While it’s liberating to finally be rid of something terrible that consumed your life for so long, it’s also extremely brutal to recover and stay disconnected from it. For me, it’s so weird to not live in the extreme anymore because that used to be my entire life. At one point, I dedicated myself to it. Now, I’m out and away from it, but I’m still trying to process all of it. I'm still trying to recover.
By Mardoll Gatsby7 years ago in Psyche
Spend a Few Moments Inside My Head
I often find myself sitting in my computer room and staring at a blank screen. I know I have the talent, I know I have the ideas, but the various questions and self-doubt keep me from typing the words onto the screen. I've always been told that I'm not good enough, that I would never amount to anything. And for 36 years, I believed it. I took to heart all the negative comments, the doubtful comments, the hateful comments. It became a part of me. Procrastination is never a good thing. It took me years upon years of sitting on my couch and crying over why my life isn't going the way I want and not doing anything about it, to realizing that in order to go where I wanted to in life, I needed to get up and actually do something with my life, open the floodgates of my writing to start the healing process of the thoughts in my head.
By Christina Scanlon7 years ago in Psyche
Which Essential Oils Help with Anxiety?
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health disorders in the world. In the United States, about 40 million people ages 18 and older report experiencing symptoms of anxiety regularly. That’s about 18 percent of the adult population.
By Marshall Stevenson7 years ago in Psyche
Naming Our Emotions
What are emotions and how do we describe them? Often it's not a subject we give much thought to. Even within the field of psychology there are various theories espoused by various researchers. Some emotions may be easy to recognize, like happiness, sadness, anger, and jealousy. Often, though, if you dig beneath the surface just a little bit, you can discover there are actually a lot of emotions going on in addition the obvious ones. Realizing this may make it easier to understand where those strong obvious emotions are coming from, which can then help us to better manage our emotions.
By Ashley L. Peterson7 years ago in Psyche
There Is Always Something to Be Thankful For
You may sometimes or often have days where you feel deeply sad and/or fed up about life. Maybe it's your home life, finances, job, friends, relationships, mental health, or the many other factors that can come into play. But a really important thing you can do is not focus on what you don't have, or what you wished you had or didn't have, but rather on the good things you do have, the things you’re thankful for.
By Rose Walker7 years ago in Psyche
Living with Self-Doubt
There is something more crippling then our political war going on, and it is sitting in our homes. It is that little bubble of self-doubt. It creeps in when we least expect it and it latches on like a leech. You can be the most confident person in the world, and yet, self-doubt can break down every wall you have ever built. This is something every individual deals with at one point in their life, and it is time we start talking about it. Whether it is your looks, your brains, or your abilities to perform a specific task, self-doubt can kill all the good we created.
By Ashlyn Harper7 years ago in Psyche
