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#Project I Am Not Ashamed
Welcome everyone, to Project I Am Not Ashamed. I created this project for one simple reason: breaking the mental health stigma, one person at a time. I found that creating awareness and education on social media can be effective, but many times we are “preaching to the choir.” To break the stigma, we need to start small and educate the general public by outing ourselves, coming out of hiding and doing this as a team and as a community.
By Ross Trowbridge8 years ago in Psyche
Happiness
I know way too many people with mental health problems, and one of these people is me. I have always been someone that loves to spend time by herself but in the last four years these moments became dark. I felt lonely even though I had friends. I had some traumatic experience in life. I know many people had experienced worse things in life and that those people came out stronger. Well with me it was the other way around. When my parents divorced, I blamed myself and because of that I tried to take care of my little brother who was two at the time. Now he is almost 13 and I still do it, but he hates it. I am always trying to keep everyone around me happy. I didn’t care about myself because as long as my loved ones were happy, I could move on. This sometimes came to moments where I cried myself to sleep because I didn’t show how broken I was. I still don’t show it.
By Unknown Love8 years ago in Psyche
Bullying
The recent suicide of a 7th Grader at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Stark County, Ohio didn’t get the same coverage that the shooting on Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida received. Both incidents are tragic. Their families and communities are beyond repair. And that is an understatement.
By Lady Sunday8 years ago in Psyche
A Perfect Storm
All my life, I felt I was not worthy of love. I never felt special. I had dreams, but they were never considered fundamental. As a child, I was creative and impressionable. I was desperate to feel love; my parents rarely showed compassion. I wanted more.
By Z.K. Campbell8 years ago in Psyche
Depression
What can I say? All you feel is emptiness. You want to feel, you try so hard to feel something other than emptiness, but you can’t. You try to do things that used to make you happy, but all you feel is nothing. Are you a person or just a walking corpse? Neither, you don’t know what you are, you don’t even know who you are. On the outside, you act and look how you think you should just so people consider you to be normal. You don’t want to speak to anyone about your problems. You just want to be alone. But loneliness makes you feel worse. But you also feel more comfortable alone. Why are we programmed to be social creatures? Technology. You don’t want to use your phone. You go days on end with your phone uncharged. You lose friends because of it. But then again, you lose friends just like a tree loses leaves during autumn. Why's that? You do things you think will make others happy, you go to university and get your degree, you get a job, you get married, you start a family, but what if that doesn’t make you happy? What then? You become a social outcast, the black sheep, selfish, idiotic, a low life. You become unimportant.
By Marisa Ferreira8 years ago in Psyche
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder – Rx Me Good, Part 1
December 2017, As I entered our local behavioral health office, I couldn’t stop the anxious shivers that ran up my spine. I wasn’t chilled from the weather—southern Oregon being unusually warm for winter—I was shivering in anticipation; I’ve always been a trembler. My last appointment at this office left me feeling unsure of myself and how I could ever get better with my new diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (a mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, behavior, and relationships) on top of my PTSD, severe anxiety, panic, depression, and attachment/abandonment issues. Over the years, my shortcomings and tribulations made me believe I could never get better, my depression and anxiety gluttonous for my despair. I knew I wasn’t in control, HADN’T been in control of myself for years, and I had finally reached my breaking point. Time to be humble.
By Jess Didway8 years ago in Psyche
The Most Dangerous Challenge
Warning! This subject material is a very sensitive to some viewers. Viewer discretion advised. When you hear or see the words, “Blue Whale,” you think of the animal, right? Well what if the word “game” or “challenge” was attached to it? Then what do you think of? What if I told you the meaning of the Blue Whale Game or Challenge was not innocent? The Blue Whale Game, also known as the Blue Whale Challenge, is a series of tasks assigned to players by a manager over a fifty days, with the final task requiring the player to commit suicide. You read that right; it’s a suicide game.
By Serena Fix8 years ago in Psyche
Tips for Dealing With Anxiety…
It strikes me as sad that so many people suffer from anxiety and yet there doesn’t seem to be any real cure. Those that don’t suffer often think it is an exaggeration. We are told to "get over it" or "calm down" or "cheer up," the most patronising and senseless responses to someone in the depths of an anxiety or panic attack.
By Samantha Bentley8 years ago in Psyche
