Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Psyche.
The Beginning of Anxiety
ANXIETY and DEPRESSION You were the warmth I clung onto when I was freezing cold. Trying to rewire my brain from all the chaos that recently happened. You were my light at the end of the tunnel. The tunnel of figuring out who I am . The world I left because the pain was too much to bear. I was trying to drown myself but I kept coming up for air . Each breath I was crying out for help but no one was listening. Finally I realized that I wasn't meant to go, then I just stayed afloat. Thinking the waves would take me to a better place but the sight of the clouds took me to a darker space...
By Maya Angelique8 years ago in Psyche
How Journaling Helps Mental Health
Keeping journals or diaries has been a long time tradition. If you look back through history you will find that successful people have kept journals. People keep journals for different reasons, such as records, keeping track of daily habits, organizing their thoughts and so on.
By Richard Bailey8 years ago in Psyche
A New Me
It started with a dress, mirror, and depression. They were all present when I had my first experience with my disease. I was wearing a white dress with a black strip of lace around the waist of the dress. I wasn't one to consider myself pretty, or even attractive, but that dress, I loved how it looked on me. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was in awe. For the very first time I had considered myself pretty and attractive. I wasn't in the best emotional state at the time, going through family issues, simple troubles that teenagers go through. These issues triggered my depression and, for some odd reason, the disease. Those three things started the hell that I've been living in for three years.
By Brianna Valenzuela8 years ago in Psyche
The First Year of College With Anxiety Disorder
By the time I reached the end of my senior year in high school, I thought I was finally together. I thought I was finally ready. I thought, as many high school seniors do, that this was where my life would become my own and start changing for the better. I had found peace in certain areas of my personal life that I had struggled with all throughout high school, I fell in love with a boy who I thought would be there for me for the rest of my life, and I had cut out the people in my life who brought me anything other than happiness (at least at the time.)
By Faith Hawkins8 years ago in Psyche
Ask Me How I Am
We all know someone who suffers with depression, even if we don’t really know they are suffering. The world can become a dark and lonely place for that person, but it’s so easy to make a difference to them. Ask them how they are. From personal experience that one simple question can make all the difference and here is why.
By Grace O'Neill8 years ago in Psyche
Advice on Dating Someone with Anxiety
When you date someone with anxiety, I recommend finding out their triggers and try to figure out what caused the anxiety in the first place. My fiance has terrible anxiety. His last partner left him with horrible scars and trust issues. He used to ask me if I would want to stay with him and how much I loved him. I know that he doesn't ask me validation questions because he wants to, but rather because he needs to. His last partner was abusive and hurtful to him on a painful emotional level. I doubt he will ever truly get over the anxiety his ex left on him.
By S. D. Kelley8 years ago in Psyche
Growing Up Introverted
Growing up introverted and not knowing what it even means to be introverted can be a very scary thing. I want to shed light onto my own experience with growing up and how I managed to come to peace with myself and accept myself for who I truly am despite what the people around me think. I spent my whole childhood and teenage years wasting them away because I was afraid of my own self and capabilities and was too focused on fitting in rather than being happy. I wanted to be like the people I loved and admired rather than put in effort to search for what made me feel comfortable.
By Julie Smith8 years ago in Psyche
I Went to Therapy the Other Day
I saw a therapist for the first time in over a month a few days ago. I had never seen her before and she did not know anything about me when I walked through the door of her office. I am pretty used to starting over with therapists at this point in my life so I knew that I would have to tell a story that I don't know how to tell. I knew I would have to recount which significant things in my life shaped me into the person sitting in the cushioned chair across from her own with her leg shaking 100 miles per hour with anticipation of spilling words out she hasn't yet fully come to terms with.
By Nikki Rendell8 years ago in Psyche
Being Stuck
When I was a kid I was never really taught how to take care of my myself. Frankly, I cannot recall being at the receiving end of any guiding parental lecture. Everything was understood, all unsaid, "common sense." Nothing is absorbed by a teenager that way. It's all trial by fire.
By Shelton Strider8 years ago in Psyche
