coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
Discovering Your New Normal After Trauma
Growing up, my normal was chaos and madness due to some less than stellar events in my childhood and a messed up family. Through the constant struggles, I have learned what to appreciate. And for me, every aspect of life is worth being appreciated. But above anything else, I appreciate normalcy.
By That Psych Nerd4 years ago in Psyche
Mental illness and love-hate relationship with corona virus
It was month of November when I first heard about covid-19. It was just another disease that might go on to kill the world but wouldn’t affect me as long as I was in my house, safe, surrounded by pale yellow walls and well, curtains that kept the thoughts of dying away. I could always draw the curtains. I have been depressed for four years now and haven’t had much social interaction with anyone. My friends left me soon after my diagnosis well because they were searching for their purpose in lives and one cannot manage that while having to go back to depressed friend. Soon it was New Year and I had nobody to wish except my family and I didn’t have any plans for 2020. I was after all living under the effects of antidepressants that convinced me that world was a horror game and I was definitely not the hero in this game. So I did what I had been doing for the past four years. Waited for a change. And maybe god really did listen to my prayers sans the fact that he didn’t listen to the part where I was wishing for change in my life and not the entire world. The funny thing about being mentally ill is that nobody dares question your thought process because in their heads you are already crazy. So now that you are thinking that my prayer gone wrong started the covid outbreak, well, it’s better to keep you thinking than put my rational mind to work and clarify the situation. I live in India and this virus hadn’t hit until February. It was always the other country. Just like how aliens always attacked America. But soon the things got out of hand and entire country went into lockdown. Roads were empty and people hoarded the necessary utilities a day before. It was scary, how shops were full of people as if doomsday were near and the last thing people didn’t want were empty stomachs when they died. It makes sense though. The first time we bought oranges during corona, I washed it with Dettol for extra protection!
By bharti bansal4 years ago in Psyche
She's So Weird
It's like a fog you get when you're driving on a major highway, your thoughts blur together like static from the television, or when you are sobbing and everything in your sight seems to be blending. I'm going to tell you a little bit of what had happened in my mental health.
By Marissa Jeffries4 years ago in Psyche
Vernon Blvd
I woke up this morning. As usual, I took my dog out, put the kettle on for a cup of tea, and then sat down at my desk to complete some school work. When I sat down, I all of a sudden became overwhelmed with emotions and flashbacks to January of 2020. This happens frequently in my life as such is the same for most PTSD patients. We get random flashbacks and thoughts of our trauma. Sometimes there are triggers, other times our brains just like to remind us of why we are the way we are. It is a cruel trick, in my opinion, but can also spark some creativity.
By Evie Gricoski4 years ago in Psyche
That time I learned I could swim...
I’ve always had this darkness inside though that I never understood until I got into college and took a psychology class. Depression… It has been my shadow all of these years, attached to me without me even realizing, following me everywhere I went, slowly draining my life force. Self-diagnosing isn’t exactly an efficient way of solving the puzzle. I saw professionals, took series of tests, surveys, physicals, etc. Severe depression/anxiety. I didn’t know what that meant… I am slowly realizing what it means, that with all of this, slowly discovering triggers and figuring out why I have self-esteem that is lower than dirt. I feel like the only reason I haven’t imploded is because I have been floating on my back in the ocean staring into a blue sky when this whole time, I was blind to the fact that I am broken, and once my eyes opened... I started to drown… and I don’t know how to swim.
By Sydney Norman4 years ago in Psyche
Sometimes it just never gets better....
That’s the sad truth. As much as we don’t want to believe it, sometimes it just never gets better. We hang onto this much too worn thread of hope that maybe one day we will wake up and feel okay. For some people that may happen. But for the most of us it never does.
By Arisescribe4 years ago in Psyche
The Lingering Fling
To be well versed in the way that I want to have a love (romantically) hasn’t been something I thought that I needed to ponder on as much as now. In the early months of winter; which is what Seattle can feel like for the majority of a calendar year, I slid into the passenger seat of his car with my opened and half full bottle of red. This moment felt exciting. I believe most twenty-somethings find a time where after several drinks with the girls in the afternoon, the most satisfactory way to end the night is with a sneaky link, or someone more committed. At least emotionally available to do as such.
By Mylena Rodriguez4 years ago in Psyche
Context
I always knew I was fucked up, but I didn’t think about it all laid out. I thought I had this shit on the right path; I was going to sort through it all eventually on my own. I should have known better than to make such careless plans. I never learn, do I? It’s never been that simple.
By Megan Baker (Left Vocal in 2023)4 years ago in Psyche
A Small Victory
I still wonder how anyone gets through their adolescence. I had heard statistics as a young man about the suicide rate among us, and also knew about all the dangers out there that would eventually claim many in my circle of friendships and family (death, jail, drugs, disappearance, etc.)
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Psyche
