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How 'Dear Evan Hansen' Helped Me Find My Inner Self as Someone Who Struggles. Top Story - December 2021.
Dear Lewis Jefferies, today is going to be a good day because you've accepted that having social anxiety is okay. The pain I've endured in the past of declining invitations to go out with people because I couldn't bring myself to going is unimaginable.
By Lewis Jefferies4 years ago in Psyche
Blood Isn’t Thicker Than Water
My dad died about a month ago. While I felt sad at first, mostly, I felt nothing. Turns out, I had already gone through the grieving process years ago. I thought I would at least feel something when his time came. I knew it would happen sooner, rather than later. When I stopped talking to him almost a decade ago, he was already old and in pretty terrible shape. Being an alcoholic and chain smoker, along with having 30 years of unresolved medical issues, does that.
By Glenn Whitlock4 years ago in Psyche
Narcissism and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
People diagnosed with autism (ASD) may be misdiagnosed, elsewhere, with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Another suggestion is that NPD is a milder form of Asperger's, called high-functioning ASD (HFA) or autism without intellectual impairment.
By writemindmatters4 years ago in Psyche
Steaming Mirrors
When I was eleven years old my aunt took custody of me, and my older sister. At the time my sister, Maribelle, was thirteen. After a huge blowout argument between another aunt, and her husband my mother decided that it was best if she split up her four children, and it was my Aunt Danah who stepped in to save the day. Aunt Danah lived out in the country, and I remember when we first went to see her asking if all the roads in Tennessee were bright red like the one my Aunt lived on.
By Sai Marie Johnson4 years ago in Psyche
How The Grinch...Can Teach Kids About Mental Health | Pt. 2
In the second part of this series, we'll be focusing on something pretty much everyone is familiar with -- bullying. Although previously touted by many as a standard part of growing up or a 'rite of passage', bullying is far from normal or acceptable.
By Jeryn Cambrah4 years ago in Psyche
The Benefits of Ketamine, LSD, Magic Mushrooms, & Ecstasy.
Today’s mental health professionals are reviving the psychedelic era of the ’60s and ’70s and drawing from traditional medicines by experimenting with LSD, magic mushrooms, ecstasy, and other psychoactive compounds in search of better treatments for mental illness.
By writemindmatters4 years ago in Psyche
When Impulsivity Is a Fear-based Trauma Response
When I was 6 she went through job training through the state and became employed, working a near minimum wage job and earning a paycheck for the first time since my birth. My whole life I knew we had less than. I knew it from the low-income apartments with cockroaches and I knew it by the clunky cars we drove. I knew it by the fighting, violence, and police being called on us.
By Melissa Steussy4 years ago in Psyche
Touched with Fire
I had read the book, all 260 pages, in a day. It was at the recommendation of a friend of mine, who was, like me, diagnosed bipolar. Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison explores the marriage between artistic temperament and mental illness. It is never specified in the book as to whether the fire is the creativity or the illness, or both. Mind you, the book makes no attempt to romanticize insanity, neither do I in writing this article. What it does do is document the clinical and quantifiable presence of psychotic illnesses in poets, artists, writers, playwrights and even mathematicians.
By Ezra Berkman4 years ago in Psyche
