coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
Abandonment Issues and COVID-19
One of the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder that I struggle with the most are feelings of abandonment. These feelings have mainly been connected to people in my personal life when I feel that they are drifting, leaving, or neglecting me. But something happened recently that completely knocked me off of my feet, and it was completely unexpected.
By Ashley Nestler, MSW6 years ago in Psyche
Understanding Trauma Triggers
I feel so powerless right now. “To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty, there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.” -Tara Westover
By Surviving Childhood Trauma6 years ago in Psyche
I Thought I Knew
IDENTIFYING WITH MY CHILDHOOD I didn’t know much until now. I found myself in a world of self discovery far beyond the textbook definition that I had expectations of. Unfair expectations that when I became a woman someday I would be stable, all knowing like my parents. But I’ve come to figure out what every adult in the world has had a taste of and that’s that my parents are not made out of iron. If you’ve already come to this discovery, you’re probably thinking, “welcome to the club,” but I’m just shell shocked.
By McKy Sillitoe6 years ago in Psyche
hearing the birdsong in the storm
I once read about a young girl who told her parents she needed to go to a doctor because she heard what she thought to be an unsettling voice in her head. She thought something was wrong and that all that noise couldn’t be normal. Turns out she was hearing her own thoughts and that it was simply her own brain that had felt foreign to her.
By Alice Bryant6 years ago in Psyche
i guess the word is crazy?
It’s crazy to exist in this moment. So much growth has come along in what is respectively a short amount of time, so much that I feel like I have aged decades beyond my years. That is a common fact, the work is tough, and the load is heavy to bare but well worth very cent to work through the tears. As it happens, when life is the balance that she is, something good must good for every something bad; with that logic, after a period of extreme hardship one must experience a moment of unadulterated bliss – in whatever form one defines that to be.
By M. A. Hetussa6 years ago in Psyche
Coping with eating disorder during lockdown
This is a time in our life that none of us will ever forget; we are all facing so many challenges, as individuals and as a society. For me this lockdown brought some new challenges and struggles, but also many old ghost from the past have found a place in my daily life again. From struggling to stay motivated to continue with my studies and regular exercise, to my struggle with a constant companion in my life - my eating disorder.
By Ema Kravanja6 years ago in Psyche
Letting Go of Darkness Into Light
Changing Seasons The last week in New Hampshire was an intense one. There were a series of revelations that led me to where I am now – in an era of a new spring, where the buds are budding, their tiny leaves plaintive and unfurling. The practices that I’ve been learning this past year: mindfulness, meditation, listening/communication, presence, and awareness, are finally beginning to fruit and I am discovering peace that I’ve been searching for.
By Annette Kim6 years ago in Psyche
I Finally See You, My Dark Vulnerable Self.
I wrote this letter to myself once I confronted the darkness and found a way to love me. I realized then that this could be someone's reflection as well so if that is you and it resonates please read it back to yourself.
By Geomara Flores6 years ago in Psyche
