coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
How Kickboxing Changed My Life
I have struggled with anxiety and mild depression for as long as I can remember. As a teenager, I thought (or rather hoped) it was just a phase, but there comes a point where you have to admit to yourself something is not quite right. You worry too easily and too much, you have a lack of motivation, you get obsessions and paranoid thoughts, cannot control negative thinking, and you can no longer justify it as you being a kid. Because frankly, you're not a kid anymore. So what do you do about it?
By Arghierenia Kyrimi8 years ago in Psyche
Depression: How To Overcome It
Learning how to overcome depression is something that not many people know how to do. Those who suffer from depression will tell you that it is one of the most unpleasant things that a person can experience and many believe that it is something that they can't control.
By Dallas Hemingway8 years ago in Psyche
A Crazy Writer
A Reflection On a whirlwind high… I had been published—a thought that had became foreign to me. An achievement that I have often compared myself to others in judging what it meant to be successful. In any field that I find an interest or passion in, I begin to compare my desires to others. Yet, on a manic high, I decided to take the very thing I have kept private and expose it to the world—that I have a love for the arts, writing being my passion, and I wanted to share with everyone and anyone…who would listen. Normally, I would start to worry about opinions that others may have in reading something as raw and as deep as my blogs, poems, or stories. The worry feeling would become so suffocating that I would then retreat back into the “shadows,” never to be heard from again. However, I took one note that my mania behavior causes me to believe; that, in the act of determination and being carefree, inhibition would be thrown to the furthest wind and continue to stay there. After some time, I would return back to reality and I would do anything to rectify the actions that had occurred. In my writing, I had gone against that thought and just allowed everything I had written to float around the net in hopes that someone—or anyone—would understand where I was coming from, be shocked, laugh, or even take heed to what I had written.
By Jay Williams8 years ago in Psyche
Dreaming of Escape
"And in the end, we lie awake, and we dream of making our escape." A beautiful lyric from Coldplay's Death & All His Friends (or perhaps more accurately, from the hidden track "The Escapist"?) That line comes to my mind often, sometimes when I least expect it. I think it is one of the most beautiful sentences and is performed so beautifully by the band.
By Violet Simone8 years ago in Psyche
You Do Deserve Love
Relationships are hard. Trying to have a relationship while having a mental illness is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Whether you have anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or etc., it is not impossible to have a meaningful, sweet relationship.
By Tianna Watkins8 years ago in Psyche
It Is What It Is
This phrase has been often pointed out as a way of giving up. Unfortunately, I use it a lot. It is hard to not just give up when you have so many voices in your head telling you to. We all have them. But as somebody who has lost people because they just “gave up,” “it was too hard,” “it’s too painful,” “nobody cares”... "it is what it is.”
By Heidi Sunshine8 years ago in Psyche
On Abuse, Addiction, and the Need for Acceptance
Scrolling through the Facebook feed looking for my daily dose of family pics, sarcastic memes, and unproductive political debates, I also see articles about abusive relationships. The articles run the gambit of abuse: physical, verbal, emotional, sexual. They are helpful to me. They have one shortcoming, though. They are almost all written about men abusing women. Very rarely are they about women abusing men.
By Jeff Dunegan8 years ago in Psyche
My Exit Strategy for a Mental Illness Downward Spiral
I'd like to start this off by giving my qualifications on the topic. I was diagnosed with depression the day after my 13th birthday. I've been suicidal and am so awesome at not controlling my unhealthy coping skills. Retail therapy is my go-to, sometimes to the detriment of my household's survival. So, I write this piece from the viewpoint of someone that has buried themselves in their own filth and was dug out by my husband. I am in no way writing this from a place of judgement, because I've fucking been there.
By Diane Nivens8 years ago in Psyche
