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Most recently published stories in Psyche.

Why Are We Still Scared??!!
Sometimes, I can sit and think for a long time before starting a piece of writing. I plan it through carefully and thoughtfully, with a specific structure in mind before I start to type. Sometimes, however, I can simply see something or experience something, and with it there comes a sudden need to write all of my thoughts down with absolutely no structure or plan whatsoever. This particular piece of writing is a product of the latter.
By Laura .7 years ago in Psyche
How to Determine When Your Health Needs to Take Priority
This past weekend I came to a crossroads where I needed to make an extremely difficult decision. I was attending the international convention for the sorority I am a member of and volunteer for. In fact, my roles include Convention Co-Chair and Vice President on our Board of Directors so I was there helping run the convention. The first two days of the convention were great, stressful, exciting, exhilarating, challenging, and anxiety-inducing.
By Rachel Kass7 years ago in Psyche
Driven by Anxiety
Anxiety is a silent emotion that can take even the strongest for a wild ride down a dark road. It does it to me all the time. I feel lost and alone even when I'm surrounded by my most cherished companions.
By Lindsey Cooper7 years ago in Psyche
Dear Anxiety
Dear Anxiety My name is Tatiana, I am 20. You are the worst thing that has happened to me, you have caused damage to my emotion, and attack me in the most inconvenient times. I am so done with you, and it is time for you to leave me alone and never come back.
By Tatiana Stanley7 years ago in Psyche
How Yellow Shoes Almost Cost Me My Life
It was just like any other Saturday in Danville, Kentucky. Still being the only child, I often had a very exciting weekend planned, as a three year old. My parents decided that they were going to take their favorite only child out on the town to the local home and garden center to find new flowers to plant around our mailbox. Little did I know that, 15 years later, that day would still haunt me.
By Emily -7 years ago in Psyche
Embarrassed
My life has been a rollercoaster. A lot of issues happened during my childhood that caused a great deal of pain, but have definitely made me who I am today.
By Elizabeth Grace7 years ago in Psyche
Give Yourself Permission to Be Different
It feels like it’s been a while. It has been a while. I’ve been trying to reconnect and it hasn’t been going well. It’s not that writing feels like work really, but that I’ve kinda become upset with the branding that has come with it. I have lost touch with it. I don’t want to do it. And it kind of sucks to see people who want to see me write become disappointed by the fact that I have given up something real to live this dream life and I have somehow managed to latch on-to a failure mentality before I’ve even started my career.
By cavia oplicus7 years ago in Psyche
Relapsing with Depression
I have not written anything in a while, having had some sort of writer's block. A few weeks ago my depression decided to slide its way into my life again and turned me upside down. It started slowly with me not sleeping it started to get later. To which now I am not sleeping until at least 9:00 AM and then sleeping all day. The moment I wake up, I seem to be instantly regretting it and wanting to fall back into a world I don't have to face. As if that wasn't already hard enough to stay awake, I could barely pick myself up to go the toilet due to such a lack of energy. This is the point I realised that there was an issue. I started fighting with the boyfriend, everything he did I started to snap I was becoming fed up with every word everyone was saying. I would snap if you told me the sky was blue. I was in deep trouble. You never really know the full extent of your depression. I peaked when I started crying at Hell's Kitchen, all because Gordon Ramsey shouted at someone. It felt so personal.
By Emma C7 years ago in Psyche
Rantings of a Mind Trapped in Purgatory
I met a one legged cricket today and understood its place, as it is mine just the same. He too must’ve cheated death and is now my only companion left behind here to remain, surrounded with suffering in purgatory! Neither alive nor dead, neither of us a purpose any longer and made to witness our own demise. Cursed to die a little everyday. Cheating death is no blessing, it’s not disguised to be one either, although we seem to take great comfort in telling ourselves otherwise.
By Tisha Skipworth7 years ago in Psyche
Dear Anxiety, Why?
General, social, even obsessive compulsive—of all things our brains could’ve created, of all things we could’ve become. Anxiety is something I myself have been dealing with since I was about 7-years-old. It started with every little noise I’d hear in the house, so paranoid it was a ghost or somebody breaking in. Granted, watching creepy videos on YouTube didn’t help. Speaking of which, the earliest experience I can recall was exactly when I was 7, not just an estimate to fill information.
By Serena Flores7 years ago in Psyche
Navigating High School with Schizoaffective Disorder
It started in February of 2015, during the second semester of my freshman year in high school. That was the month that my brain turned against me, where I could no longer diffuse between reality and illusion, where I believed things that were not possible, and unknown voices visited me at night. It all got worse from there.
By Emilie Morgan7 years ago in Psyche
Dental Phobia
Dental phobia is more than just a fear of the dentist. I know, because I have to deal with it. I'm not talking about the mild anxiety that some feels when sitting in a hall to face an exam either. I'm talking about the awful panic, nervousness, sweats, feeling sick and extreme fear which can start even before you step through the door of a dental surgery.
By Carol Ann Townend7 years ago in Psyche