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What It Feels Like When Professionals Get a Diagnosis Wrong, and How I Am Living with That
Any mental health problem is not easy to live with, nor is it easy for people around us to accept and support us. However, having three different mental health problems can feel like you are living life constantly on edge. This article is intended to help professionals understand why it is important to get the diagnosis right, and what it feels like to live with my three new diagnoses.
By Carol Ann Townend7 years ago in Psyche
Off Day vs. Mental Health
Everybody has off days—that's a fact. We can wake up in a bad mood, we can be feeling off all day, we cannot have the energy to do daily tasks, and we cannot be up to socialising with people. I'd even go as far as to say this is relatively normal—to have an off day—for it'd be impossible to stay 100 percent positive all the time.
By Paige Roden7 years ago in Psyche
Photos from When I Was Suicidal
Trigger Warning: Suicide mention, dark thoughts, etc. (there’s nothing graphic, but I talk about being in that mindset). I was looking through my Snapchat memories gallery, which I forget exists a lot, and realized something that shocked me.
By Catherine Butler7 years ago in Psyche
March Is Self-Injury Awareness Month
Tomorrow is the first of March, and for many, that can mean a lot of great things, including the fact that spring is not far away. However, it also means we need to start a dialogue that plagues millions of individuals yearly: Self-injury. March is #SelfInjuryAwarenessMonth in Canada, the United States, and Western Europe, and self-injury is something that I—like so many others—continue to know very little about.
By Christina St-Jean7 years ago in Psyche
The Darker Mind
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness." — Nikos Kazantzakis. The darker mind is a misleading term, as it implies singularity. The darker mind is a split one, always, with no exception. It isn’t to be confused with an evil one, those can be single-minded, just as the spiritual and kind ones can be. The dark mind is the one that left the game and watched their peers continue on with joy and intent, wondering, do they know this is a game? This kind of mind is cynical and dreams of complete self-sufficiency, yet depends on substances that alter emotions. They hate people, love women. A darker mind will struggle to sleep at night and beg for rest during the day. While with a partner, these people will itch at the thought of marriage as it screams constriction, but they’ll understand it on a one night stand. It’s a lonely life to be this kind of person; you’ll question your every decision and dance somewhere between art and practicality, and only have enough to give either side half their heart. The lucky ones choose, the really lucky ones find success, some even after death as is the fate of many painters. The musicians with the darker mind find the most success, they make the art form that is the fastest to affect the soul, but even then, some of them don’t see twenty-eight. The unlucky ones, the majority, have varied life issues such as addiction and many other predictable things. Some of them live and die in dead-end jobs and fail at home to create or care or feel.
By Kurtis Pryde7 years ago in Psyche
Stuck on Stupid (Pt. 1)
[SEMESTER 1: SEPTEMBER] Darian. For the record, I would just like to say, I never thought I would have ever been in love with somebody with a name like that. There's nothing wrong with it, but I just had always seen myself with more of a "Brandon," or maybe even a "Michael." I don't know. I'm just saying.
By Calese Michelle7 years ago in Psyche
Self-Image
Everywhere I go, people are always commenting on how I look, and that happens even if I have a day with no makeup, in pajamas, or dressed in my glad-rags. I don't have a problem with the person telling me these things, the problem I have is I can't see it. The other day I went makeup-less and dressed down and everyone said I looked good, but without my "smart look" I felt unconfident. However, if someone compliments me when I look smart, I still can't truly see it.
By Carol Ann Townend7 years ago in Psyche
What Are Attitudes? How Are They Formed?
Attitudes are something that precede the human’s behaviour and leads our decisions and choices for actions and activities; a nearly permanent assembling and formulation of feelings, beliefs and behavioural tendencies, in the direction of groups, events, symbols, etc... In other words, it is a feeling or evaluation raised in our mind, which could be positive or negative, about an object, issue or person. Without attitudes it would be hard for us to make decisions or react to events (Hogg, 2010). This essay explained what attitudes are, their structure and aim, where they come from and how they can change.
By Chiara Marullo7 years ago in Psyche
Brittle
We go through life alone, whether we like it or not. Friends, family, relationships, none of it is real because no one truly knows one another. We all have various versions of ourselves that we display to society, friends, and family. When our versions become compromised, we are forced to retreat into ourselves—shifting and shaping into someone who, we ourselves, might not even recognize.
By Elijah Taylor7 years ago in Psyche
10 Signs You're Dealing with a Pathologically Stubborn Person
My ex was a pathologically stubborn person, and I mean that in a clinical way. He was so adamant about things being his way, it actively hurt him and his ability to connect to people. Heck, it was even a driving force to our breakup!
By Cato Conroy7 years ago in Psyche
