selfcare

The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.

Grief Is Funny Like That
I never expected him to actually finish anything. He was always leaving. I always picture him with a suitcase in his hand. Sometimes I wonder what he would look like now. When I close my eyes I still see his smile and I swear I could smell him, Well him before the shooting. I dream of him sometimes and he's smiling and walking toward me and then I wake up. I wake up happy then reality sets in. For a long time, I wasn't able to talk about it. Even thinking about his death made me sick to my stomach. Sometimes thinking about it still makes me sick to my stomach almost nine years later. I thought that I would be less traumatized by it after all of these years but I'm not. I'm still that traumatized 17-year-old who just lost her best friend to gun violence. Things can change in a heartbeat. If we didn't walk down that street at that time he would still be here. I would still have my best friend here. But I can't change that. It took me years to stop blaming myself. Somedays I still blame myself or I blame God. Not the actual person who murdered him.
By Nat 3 years ago in Psyche
The Responsibility of Your Employer for better Mental Health
The average worker will spend a total of 100,000 hours of their lives at work. Even though work may be the source of self-fulfillment or just a way to stay afloat and support the family financially, it has serious mental health ramifications. So, we are left asking the following:
By Confidential Conversations3 years ago in Psyche
Empathy // Rediscovered
» KEY POINTS One day, something broke... or rather repaired... inside of me. Suddenly feeling empathy for the first time helped me realize that I had been missing so much. There is a massive gap between the compassion I did feel and thought was enough and actual empathy for other human beings.
By J.P. Prag3 years ago in Psyche
Being Me
Being Unique & Always “the Other” Born in a refugee camp following WW2 to parents fleeing from Lithuania just ahead of Stalin's army, I have always been the outsider, the foreigner, the stranger. Till 18, I didn’t even qualify for the citizenship of any country. Truly an outsider.
By Vytas Stoskus3 years ago in Psyche
A Day in the Life of Bipolar Disorder: What It’s Like To Live With Mental Illness
Can you relate? I wake up and can’t get out of bed. I feel like a pink hippo is taking a nap on my chest. All I want to do is sleep, but I force myself to get up, anyway. It’s been like this for a few days now. Every morning feels like an impossible battle just to keep going.
By Scott Ninneman3 years ago in Psyche
Live in the Now if Your Mental Health is Suffering
In the time my Bride and I have been together, I’ve learned a lot from her. She’s been a counselor for about 22 years. I’ve picked up a few tips and pointers about mental health struggles. She’s helped many people deal with the challenge of living in the now.
By The Mouthy Renegade Writer3 years ago in Psyche
Pinball Wizard
Nothing about the grieving process is easy. Nothing. Not even the sitting around and crying. Those tears are the most gut-wrenching tears many of us will ever shed and each one slashes through us as if our flesh were nothing more than a suggestion.
By Monica Cable3 years ago in Psyche
"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" by John Locke
One of the most significant and fascinating facets of human life has always been philosophy. It has relevance because it creates meanings and values. Furthermore, philosophy completes people's lives in this way. For a deeper comprehension of all that surrounds humans, it is vital to research and assess various philosophical ideas. Because of this, this work will be regarded as the subject of John Locke's thesis on the value and utility of human understanding.
By indika sampath3 years ago in Psyche
Two Tiny Habits That Significantly Improved My Mental Health and Life
There’s a powerful quote I constantly think about that goes, “Show me a person’s habits and I will show you what their future will look like”. I’m not sure who said it exactly but that’s beside the point.
By Kathia Jurado3 years ago in Psyche
Emotional Sunk Costs
Some of you might be familiar with the concept of sunk costs in the context of economics or business. What it means is that once some investments are made and you can’t get them back these costs shouldn’t affect your decisions anymore. In practice this means, just because you already invested 100 000 € in a failing company that doesn’t justify investing more and more money in it. It’s rational to decide if it makes sense to invest in the company independently if you invested in it before or not.
By Simon Schmitz3 years ago in Psyche
I’m a plane riddled with bullets, and so are most survivors
***Trigger warning: I talk about abuse and trauma in this blog.*** There’s a type of rage only people who’ve been abused understand. It’s both dissociative and full of ancestral fury; silent but always present. Sometimes it lays dormant like winter in our veins, and sometimes it rips through us like a match struck against our scars.
By Jodi Nicholls3 years ago in Psyche
Grief
My husband is dead. I say that as much for myself as I say it for you, dear reader. I still have to remind myself. It’s been very nearly a month. Both the longest and shortest month of my life. Time no longer seems linear—I just float around inside the days and bump from one moment to the next.
By Monica Cable3 years ago in Psyche