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Identity Crisis
Being of both Asian and Caucasian blood, I never really felt like I belonged to either race. Whether it's my Caucasian friends denouncing my Asian heritage or not accepting my other half. My Asian friends saying I'm too "White" and alienating me from a culture that I too possess. I always felt as if I was in limbo in terms of my identity. Holding many cultures within, however, not belonging to one. Throughout my childhood, I accepted that fact and moved forward. However, in college, it really weighed me down and forced me to reconsider my values and morals. I didn't understand why it affected me so much or why it mattered to people to point out what race I am as if I was a wine tasting test. Being not one to complain, instead, just go with the flow. I seem tranquil and calm on the outside, but there's a fire brewing on the inside, and with a roaring fire, the smoke has to escape somewhere. That being said, I wanted to find a method or a relief to these feelings bottled up inside me. A way that I can show others, I belong to both cultures. Through cooking, I hoped to accomplish that.
By Jeff Miller5 years ago in Psyche
Moonlight
Moonlight The Moon is a difficult subject since it has so many phases, beginning with the new moon and ending with the full moon. I prefer to think of this as a mental cycle in which we must strive to become full of light again when we are in our darkest times. When you transform into a full moon, it is the most wonderful feeling in the world because you are bathed in light, casting away the shades of darkness. The trouble with being entirely full is that when something awful happens, you start to let the darkness back in, you allow yourself to be swallowed whole, and you end yourself right back where you started.
By Makayla Cullum5 years ago in Psyche
Highly Sensitive People: Superpower vs. Burden
I’ve always felt out of place. As if no one quite understood me and the things I would see or say were misunderstood. Almost to the point of feeling like they didn’t believe me. I could sense it because I observed their behavior and noticed a change in their tone. It was subtle, but it was there. So many times when I wondered why. Why is the world the way that it is? The universe is such a mystery filled with wonder.
By Vanessa R. Powell5 years ago in Psyche
The Unmedicated ADHD
For the longest time I have been dealing with my ADHD unmedicated. Now there is nothing wrong with being medicated but being female it makes it even harder to have a medical professional take you seriously. Typically since this disorder is defined as being hyper active usually males will get diagnosed early on in life while most women don't until they reach adulthood. Even then usually it takes a series of tests and professional examinations to even get considered for the disorder. This is because ADHD manifests differently in females than it does in males. Lucky for me I wasn't one of those females as I got diagnosed at age four. However a lot of my ADHD symptoms growing up were also misdiagnosed as anxiety or depressions which lead me to taking medications I didn't need to. After fighting with medical professionals for so long to get on the right medication I started looking at other things I could control to help my brain function. I'm going to share my top 3 methods I do to try to keep myself under control.
By Alexis Sidor5 years ago in Psyche
Manifestation Mindset
Manifestation is not just a myth. We all manifest daily from the quick mundane ideas to the things we are most passionate about. The true “secret” to manifesting is really recognizing that we are instantaneously creating our reality, in every single moment, based on where are our in our subconscious beliefs, and state of being (feeling state). To give clarity: state of being is your overall emotional state that you resonate at. What you believe to be true will create into reality. Whatever circumstances are present before you, doesn't matter. Everything has the power to be changed, altered or rewritten. Everyone of us is pushed out into other people. Ever notice when you have a bad day everyone around you does too? Ever notice the people in your childhood somehow play out in your adult world in some capacity? For example, if you got bullied by a male and female as a child, you may notice you have a male and female who bully you as an adult. There are things within us that are embedded in our subconscious that manifest into reality daily. "Money doesn't grow on trees." Ever hear that growing up? Yet most of us who did aren't millionaires and most are just getting by paycheck to paycheck. Because our beliefs tell us that money is scarce and hard to get. Ever think of a place to eat and someone suggests it? Because everyone is YOU pushed out. Where you reside in your mind and your beliefs as well as your beliefs of others will manifest into reality of other people.
By Michelle Tasker5 years ago in Psyche
How walking helped me get rid of the pain
When my age was about twenty years, I had back problems. The problem began when I was a teenager, but a few years after yoga management and massage, I realized that conventional pain relief strategies suddenly did not work.
By Mohammad Arif5 years ago in Psyche
Feathers, Coins, Animals
Finding myself alone at 3 am, finally releasing my emotions that I had hid from my kids that day, questioning myself, "Again, why do people die so soon, and in a sad way?, he was just getting home to his family? Why in front of his kids while they were playing out in their little playground, WHY? My brother's death in 2004 hit me hard, just because he was full of life, loved his kids and enjoyed his life every single day with a smile and spunk.... he was basically the strongest one that kept the family together after our father passed away just 4 years earlier to a heart attack. I knew my dad was ready to go, he worked so much as if he didn't want to rest and do nothing to avoid the hurt he had deep inside. I don't know what he loved the most, working or his cancer sticks as he called them, along with his cold ones while jamming to his "corridos" aka Mexican music which told their stories which basically described his life in Mexico. These 2 men in my life that are somewhere unknown, with so many theories and beliefs about Heaven, and where do we go after death, I found myself questioning, demanding answers that I seemed to never of found.
By Colourful3motions5 years ago in Psyche
Autistic Burnout and Depression
Somewhere between over-sharing and watch me never talk again in this bihh. I posted on my Instagram story that I would write this elaborate article on Autistic Burnout and Clinical Depression— I even had this whole plan of titling it that.
By Dan-O Vizzini5 years ago in Psyche
