coping

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

My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.
Last month, I spoke to NAMI’s Ohio statewide conference. Here are my organised comments. Before I start, I want to provide you with a warning that this talk touches on many triggering subjects, such as self-harm and suicide. I additionally need you to understand that I’m talking from my non-public enjoyment, and that if you or someone you recognize can be dwelling with mental contamination, please speak to an authorised and certified scientific expert, because I am no longer a doctor.
By Joe Walter4 years ago in Psyche
I Made the Cut
I'm a scratcher. I scratch at ideas, hoping something will come of them. I scratch at dreams, wondering if they're real or just something I conjured up to satisfy my own sense of purpose.
By synrie4 years ago in Psyche
home, hope, harbour.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Among all the tumultuous tides in all the seas in all the world, there had never been a land quite like the Isle of Arevas. The somber horizon that lost itself in the ceaseless greys of its surrounding seas was a wondrous yet unappreciated sight, made evident through infrequent visitors’ appraising eyes. Arevas was all but inhabitable, left only to those that welcomed the piercing cold- or at the very least, made grave efforts to adapt to it. There were few that called it home, instead serving as an unwelcoming port for wandering landlubbers desperate to drift off the seas.
By savera s4 years ago in Psyche
Creeping darkness
I’m not sure where you came from, or where you go. All I know is that you’re not welcomed here by anyone. I want you to leave, you're dampening the mood. Just pick up your stuff and leave. You make me hate myself, and everyone else. Doing literally anything hurts your muscles, almost like your body is fighting it. Why can't I leave you alone?
By Rambler's Society4 years ago in Psyche
We're Two Years into a Pandemic and Our Mental Health is Sinking
In March of 2020, chaos emerged as a result of our first lockdown. As businesses began shutting down, alcohol sales rose to astronomical numbers and began taking over, 'comforting' millions of Americans. Unfortunately, this number increased over the months, showing the severity of abuse. After two years into the pandemic, has our mental health and coping improved? Or is it just as bad?
By Jen4 years ago in Psyche
Breaking the chains of generational trauma:
Teaching our children how to feel and deal with their emotions means changing the way we see and perceive emotional intelligence. Chances are you are parenting from a wounded place and all the tactics you are using are greatly diluted by the voices echoing in your own head.
By Jaded Savior Blog4 years ago in Psyche
Perfection is a lie
Perfection is never perfect. Society plagues us with this idea that we need to be perfect. There is always something that needs critiqued in some form. That makes us doubt ourselves. This perfection that society make believes is not good for our well being.
By Rosemary Slavic4 years ago in Psyche
The Moments That Matter
I sat at the glass kitchen table crushing my cocaine with the bottom of a mug against the slick dining surface, making sure not to pierce the bag. I couldn’t believe I had gotten here. Breaking all my own rules. I had escorted several years in my twenties, but I always worked sober, and I always made sure it wasn’t my main gig. But here I was, using coke to wake me up between calls, after drinking too much wine with my last client. This wasn’t fun, I was depressed, and simply trying to make things bearable.
By Corinne Nicholson4 years ago in Psyche
Making Friends With My Nemesis, Christmas
My grudge with Christmas goes way back. Every holiday season when the songs start playing in stores I cringe. When the decorations go up I think, “what a ridiculous waste!” When there are long lines at stores and all I want to buy is this one sweater on sale, but have to wait an eternity I am annoyed. When songs and people coax me to be joyful I feel a burning silent rage.
By Jessica Stapp4 years ago in Psyche
They Say Feelings Change
An old record that I am done playing. It goes around and around reciting the same empty promises. Reminding me of why I should be angry, resentful, and bitter.
By Melissa Steussy4 years ago in Psyche
Inside My Natural Brain
He asked if I’d ever been evaluated for ADHD. I think I literally laughed at him. It was absurd. I’d been an exceedingly good student. I could focus so tightly on things it was hard to get my attention away. There were never any discipline problems or anything like that. I was in my mid-thirties and overwhelmed with all the usual family, work, and so forth, that’s all.
By Cathi Allen4 years ago in Psyche
Putting Myself First in 2022
2021 is drawing to a close soon and a new year will begin. We’ve been through so much, especially for almost the last couple of years. You’ve probably been asked at least once what your goals are for the new year. According to an article from Statista Research Department published in May 2021, about 50% of Americans said that they wanted to lose weight or exercise. I never use the term resolutions, because in most instances, many people tend to break them in a short amount of time. Instead, I say New Year’s goals.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 4 years ago in Psyche