coping

Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.

Fighting Demons from the Past
I catch myself fighting demons from the past. One too many times, I catch myself listening to voices in my head. From time to time, I hear a whisper pondering in. This voice is not the voice of my daily thoughts and reflections. You know, the typical "We're going to have a good day today" or "should we add milk or no milk to our coffee this morning". This voice is a voice that wanders in my head from time to time. It makes an entrance slowly, smoothly, and agrees with me. That is until it speeds up its course and begins to get louder. The loudness soon turns into depths of emotions that begin to fill my body with a feeling that feels so familiar. A home away from home, because there is not a single reason as to why I could feel the depth of this voice.
By Irma Mejia3 years ago in Psyche
All Aboard: Hold on Tight in the Crazy Train for One
The train slid across the tracks and groaned with increasing acceleration. Déjà vu flushes through me and my rapidly pulsating blood keeps time with the motion, faster, faster, faster. I am floating, but grounded, and awaken startled by the bouncing and the screams.
By London3 years ago in Psyche
Do I exist? Am I Invisible?
An indescribable hole comes into my chest and sense of self whenever my family forgets about me. Just the other day, my mother told me about how my brother, whom I hadn’t seen in two years and loved, was going to fly into California, where my other brother and his family lived, and that they were going to drive down and all get together — and she asked me, not if I wanted to join them, but she asked me if I could water the plants for her while she was gone visiting.
By Elizabeth Carver3 years ago in Psyche
Passive Crossing
You are waking up. You will feel dazed. There is no cause for alarm. I am here to help you. Someone was talking. A calm voice. Man, woman, he could not pick up any qualities that would suggest the gender.
By Lakingya Johnson3 years ago in Psyche
You Fool, You Failed Again! — A Life Lesson on Perfectionism
There are times when one feels ashamed of their mistakes. You may worry that others will see you as incompetent or unworthy if they know about your errors. This leads to a perfectionist mindset, where you feel the need to strive for flawlessness in everything you do. While this drive can sometimes lead to notable accomplishments, it also often results in tremendous stress and anxiety. Falling short of one’s own high standards feels like a personal failure, which can be incredibly demoralising. Ultimately, trying to be perfect is both exhausting and fruitless — It is impossible to achieve flawless results 100% of the time, so why bother? Instead, it is important to forgive oneself for mistakes and move on; after all, nobody is perfect!
By Neurodivergent_ai3 years ago in Psyche
I Can't Sleep When I'm With Me
Readers, I am sure it is safe to say that everyone or at least most people have dealt with insomnia at some point in their lives. Just so you know, this is not a how to on how to handle insomnia. This is a woe is me type situation.
By Missy H.3 years ago in Psyche
Inspirational positive energy sentence, to inspirational friends
1. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
By nashan3 years ago in Psyche
Be willing to try what you want to do
Setting goals is often like this, some things may be more than you can do, but that doesn't mean you have to give up the whole pursuit.
By antone cates3 years ago in Psyche
Inspirational stories about loneliness
Have you ever experienced loneliness? What would you do? The clouds swept up, and the wind in the trees roared like a roar, so that the leaves on the thick trunks jumped up and struggled violently, as if afraid of being separated from the branches, but at last the leaves fell feebly. There seemed to be moonlight, but it was constantly cut off by dark clouds and disturbed by cold winds. The wind changed from time to time, making the leaves and the green grass leap in one direction and then in the other. The leaves rolled up in the air, with small stones, and there was a sound of rolling and crashing, and then there was a splash of separation. Dogs were heard, houses were seen, walls were seen.
By banmu3 years ago in Psyche
How to overcome social phobia
Social phobia is a fascinating phenomenon that is uniquely human and is not seen in the animal world. If they repel each other, it's mostly for boundaries, territory, food and mates, or solitary habits. The animal's rejection is outward-facing, whereas social fear, which seems to be the rejection of some people, is essentially inward, its own rejection of itself.
By Ivan A Jaramillo3 years ago in Psyche
What is freedom?
What is freedom? Chen Jin said: freedom is you stand alone, not attachment, not afraid. In this world, there are many things, no one can help you, only you.
By over Dk3 years ago in Psyche
Saying Goodbye
It’s that suffocating kind of pain. You know the kind. It chokes you. It’s simultaneously a dull ache and a sharp knife, twisting your insides over and over again until you don’t know how much longer you’ll be able to stand it. It’s the kind of grief that eats away at the core of you. Inside out, until heart and soul, flesh and bone are damaged. You know better than to think they can ever really be repaired.
By Ariel Joseph3 years ago in Psyche