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My 2nd random entry in a brand new journal
17NOV2021; 2111, WED Yet another Hump Day with nothing but Mrs. Death on my mind. How fitting that I began this note randomly at 9:11PM, and folks are likely gonna be frantically dialing 911 tomorrow as I feasibly just so happen to be bleeding out in the city that I was born in.
By Nefarious Darrius4 years ago in Psyche
Another Accidental Addict
Those were the words I said at the first NA meeting I ever attended when I was sixteen years old. Two years prior I had been involved in a horrible bike accident. I shattered most of my face, including my eye socket, cheek bone and nose. I received three hundred and fifty stitches across my forehead and up into my hair line, and twelve more to reattach my nose.
By Leigh Robbins4 years ago in Psyche
Behavioral Changes Caused By Drug Addiction
Behavioural changes caused by drug addiction can be quite distressing. Addicts may feel very guilty and may take their frustration out on family and friends. Their performance at work may also decrease. They may even become violent and abusive towards those close to them. They may also have a difficult time maintaining relationships with other people, and their family and friends will be constantly asking them to change their ways.
By Mindy Pallas4 years ago in Psyche
Am I Too Happy?
I am writing this because I have found the Psyche community on Vocal and though I have written many pieces dealing with Mental Health they have ended up in Journal or Humans. I usually feel I have no right to post in communities because I have not been (and don’t expect to be) diagnosed with any mental health conditions.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Psyche
You are your algorithm.
What is the algorithm? We hear it often. Do you ever take the time out to understand it? An algorithm is a set of instructions for solving a problem or accomplishing a task. It is an automated reasoning used within our everyday lives used for calculation and data processing.
By Ace Howell4 years ago in Psyche
Psyched Out
It took a while to begin to explain the weight of what was welling up and festering as it grew inside of me. It can be hard to relay the struggles of an ill-diagnosed or misdiagnosed mental illness to other people when everything on the outside is a typical life in their eyes. However, nothing was typical about the games my mind would play on me to make me feel as if everything was constant danger, and that I had never really escaped one of my biggest fears; losing the people I love due to ties with the military. With only four years of military experience and one tour in Afghanistan, it was hard to come back. Even though I was never engaged in actual warfare with the bombs and shootings laying a little outside the lines where I was stationed, there was not much solace that could be sought in the small clinic where we worked to return soldiers back ready to fight from what conditions had been ailing them. I never thought that once stepping on the plane headed back stateside that I would be carrying a burden with me over the next seven years. I was living a life with a misdiagnosed mental disorder, and it was seeking to sweep me from under my feet right in front of the people I loved the most with no reserve for the fears of my family, or the tugs of mental sanity I tried to keep peace with.
By Jacquelyn Richardson4 years ago in Psyche
How To Fake It When You Can't Find the Words
I tried to remember the words I wanted to speak. I couldn’t recall their meaning, so I went looking for paint. I thought maybe the colors would describe how I felt. The color I was looking for perhaps did not exist. So I was left mute, grey, without substance or adequate description; transparent—no, semi-opaque, glisteningly absent, like a spirit that couldn’t let go. Floating, yet drowning.
By Catherine Kenwell4 years ago in Psyche
