coping

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

I Use Online Writing as my Therapist and I Haven’t Felt This Great in 7 Years
I have diagnosed PTSD. I developed it, along with general anxiety and episodes of paranoia (which have mostly gone away), following my sexual assault.
By Gillian Sisley5 years ago in Psyche
Change After Change
Hello counselor, I am 5 years old and today is my first day in kindergarten, its cold outside and my clothes aren’t completely dry because we don’t have a washer or dryer at home. I’m excited to make friends, they all smell like bubble gum and flavored color markers! Me and my parents and my newborn baby brother just moved from Mexico, we are all staying in a 5 ft by 4ft room with a space heater, I stop drinking water by 6 pm because it has been snowing and its cold to go pee in our porta john.
By Leydi Herrera5 years ago in Psyche
Vodka on the Rocks...
Childhood for me is a blur; I cannot remember most of my life prior to age eight or nine though I am not sure how rare that actually is. I imagine it is true for most people.
By Melissa Godshall5 years ago in Psyche
Consent Still Exists in a Committed Relationship
At the age of 11, I made the commitment to save myself for marriage. I’m currently 25-years-old, engaged to be married, and my wedding is exactly 6 months from today.
By Gillian Sisley5 years ago in Psyche
Cariña
You wake up in the morning and think, "why am I alive?" You contemplate on bed whether or not it is worth getting up. You don't get up. You don't get up at all, even though you know that there are a million reasons to get up. You pull your comforter over your head, hoping that the temporary feeling of warmth might alleviate some of the pain you've constantly been feeling. You want to die. You feel worthless. What's the point? You're a waste of space.
By Jay Cordero5 years ago in Psyche
Universe
The last few years have been tough and not sure where it all went wrong. Family, friends, past relationships or even your career. But 2020 brought those feelings into perspective. They say people that have been struggling for the last few years, it could have been because of the astrology. How the stars and moons had been aligned. For those who believe in spiritually, this is our time to have a fresh start. To believe in ourselves again. To be one with the universe. To forgive our mistakes and grow from them.
By Melissa Buchanan5 years ago in Psyche
The beginnings
Lets get acquainted My name is Parker and i am a survivor of sexual , emotional and physical abuse. It took a long time for me to be able to say this out loud but when i finally did i found my truth in the silence and the strength in my voice. My wish for this page is to be able to be there for and listen to others who are out there just like me. Share with me your story as i share with you mine.
By Parker5 years ago in Psyche
No One
No one gets me I feel like I am alone. No one cares enough to pick up a phone. I am searching for someone who can understand. I feel buried alive. I cannot breathe in the sand. The water is rising and I cannot get out. No one can hear me in the deep ocean, even as I shout. I am lost and I am trying to be strong. I am looking through the map and I wanted to see. I found out I was not in the right place all along.
By Gina R (Gibana)5 years ago in Psyche
The cherry on top
If you have kept up with my blogs thus far then you will know i have a condition called endometriosis. What you may not know is i also have fibromyalgia. I have had it for years and its pretty bad. So both of these conditions put together is kind of a bitch. They both involve chronic pain and chronic fatigue and are both incurable and just managed. So its hard some days to try to be positive and try to be hopeful for the future. When your in so much pain all over your body and emotionally damaged as well "bad days" can be pretty dark. Right now with therapy and medications im in an okay place. I dont want to say a good place because im still struggling quite a bit with everything. Happily though i can also say that im better off today than say two years ago. I try to hold on to my wins even if there small ones. Its so easy to tell yourself how awful you are or how unworthy you are. Its so easy to talk badly about youself and to give up on trying. I know this because ive been giving up for a really long time. I dont want to give up anymore. So those tiny wins help me fight and move forward. Im apprehensive about looking toward the future but for once, im letting myself daydream. Im allowing myself to get my hopes up here and there. That’s huge for me because baseline me is a defeatist with an addictive personality and no self-control. After i turned 30 something just clicked in my head and made me want more. Made me want better. I want to own my own home even if its a shanty with no doors at least it would be mine and i earned it. I want a career and have pride in what i do for a living. Im SO sick of going from one dead end meaningless job to the next. I don’t want to just live to pay bills. I want to have hobbies and have cool experiences with my kids. I want my kids to be happy and know they can trust me and count on me. I don’t want to be sick mean sad mom anymore. I have a theory that every person has a flame or a drive in them to do something or be someone and along the path of life sometimes that flame just dies. My flame was stomped on and put-out years ago because of I’ve been numb for so long. Recently though i can feel the littlest bit of ember coming back and im really excited about it. I know everything in life is baby steps but you have to want to take those steps and until now I didn’t want too. With all things considered i could barely muster up enough motivation to go the bathroom much less give a shit about life. I guess all in all what im trying to say is living through abuse and dealing with everything that comes after is hard enough all by itself but to also live with these awful conditions, makes it close to impossible for me to want to care about myself and what my future could look like. I’m blessed enough to have someone who loves me and supports me and is a daily reminder that i matter but i know how many of us don’t have that support. It kills me to know how many people are living through this life alone trying to navigate through depression anxiety, fear and hatred. This is why i do what i do. This is why no matter how much i hurt no matter how much i want to stay in bed and quit, i still get up and check all my platforms because every day is a new day that maybe I can make one person less lonely. Maybe save someone from having to feel the way I do.
By Parker5 years ago in Psyche
my mental health & Covid
Recently, I had the unfortunate pleasure of testing positive for good ol' Covid (I'm currently fine and am back at it with normal life). However, I live with someone who lies within the "higher risk" category, so I went straight for the extreme solution. I packed up some of my things and went off into our guest bedroom where I would stay for ten days. During my isolation, I had A LOT of time for eating, sleeping, binging TV, and many other mundane activities. The one thing that I did the most though was think.
By Bad At Being A Girl5 years ago in Psyche
What Are Nightmares Telling Us?
In 2008, I was lying in bed and drifting off to sleep. My then-boyfriend was in the other room. Lying on my stomach, my head turned to the right, I was idly glancing at the wardrobe.
By Martina Petkova5 years ago in Psyche
Coping With Grief and Loss
Grief is something that is unique in that everyone feels and processes the pain in a different way. Most people have heard about the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But there are people that don’t go through all five stages before they begin to heal, and others that do go through all five and still aren’t healing. The path to healing is uniquely your own.
By Shiloh Madison5 years ago in Psyche