coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
My Depression, Anxiety, and Truth
Recently, I wrote a post on my personal Facebook page about depression. I touched on the fact that depression is not merely the feeling of being sad, but in and of itself, much more than that. This "thing" we call depression rears its head in other forms. Forms such as, anger, isolation, anxiety, the feeling of being overwhelmed or underwhelmed, darkness, emptiness, paranoia, and sometimes even feeling like you are drowning in a deep, dark sea and you can see no "hope" of a light in the distance to be saved.
By Wynter Snowe-Gem8 years ago in Psyche
Living with My Mental Illnesses
What I want to talk about today are my mental illnesses. They are the reason I started writing. I have anxiety and depression. As a result of these, I have an on/ off relationship with food and have great difficulty sleeping. I also suffer from sleep paralysis.
By Rebecca Jones8 years ago in Psyche
Coping with Social Anxiety
According to Mayo Clinic, social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia) is essentially the feelings of nervousness, such as anxiety, fear, and self-consciousness, during everyday interactions. The most common being the fear of being judged or scrutinized by other people.
By Monte brogdon8 years ago in Psyche
My Strange Addiction
Trichotillomania. I don’t expect you will have heard of this before. I’m yet to meet anyone who is familiar with the word, or indeed, the condition. That’s partly because I’ve never spoken openly about my own personal affliction with this “disorder.”
By Anika Heale8 years ago in Psyche
When It Feels like You're a Walking DSM-5
In December 2016, I started anti-depressants. In July 2017, I saw a psychologist for a psychological evaluation. I began 2018 by having yet another suicidal crisis and checked myself into an inpatient facility for the first time. I had initially thought my sickness was just two things, depression, and anxiety, but it went much deeper than that. I went in wholly convinced that I would get on the anti-depressants my doctor gave me and be right as rain shortly after that.
By Margot Smith8 years ago in Psyche
Growth Is Non-Linear
Picture an outward moving spiral circling, growing larger, like a ripple in a body of water. At the top of this spiral is joy and at the bottom is depression. Traveling through this spiral, momentum builds as you reach the top. The view is infinite, and your hopes the same, but on the way down you plummet quickly and deeply into hopelessness.
By Ellen Tran8 years ago in Psyche
How Art Saved My Life
I was so depressed, my world consisted of staring blankly at the wall in the shower, with the water so hot I burned myself, begging my body to let me feel, I was carving into my wrists with thumbtacks, just to feel the pain, I hated my body my mind, myself. All I wanted yo do was lay under my covers and disappear... I thought about dying, everyday, I forgot what it felt like to not want to die. My world became so dark, I pushed away friends, and I told myself I wasn't good enough for my hobbies. I wanted to quit... I couldn't take a pill with out thinking of swallowing the whole bottle... or stand on a bridge without wanting to jump. At this point I was fucked, to be blunt. I was going through stuff, my mom was convinced a clean room was a happy me... And I didn't care about much but it killed me to see her look so sad... and that she thought she had failed at parenting.
By Aubrey NhyaMoon8 years ago in Psyche
