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A solid support system is invaluable for one's recovery from psychiatric illness and mental health issues.

The Reflection
"Who am I?" These are three words that people often ask themselves from time to time, usually when they are wondering where they fit in. However, for me, it was a completely different story.
By Carol Ann Townend3 years ago in Psyche
Rest Well tWitch
This isn’t the story I wanted to write as my first story back to Vocal after a year of not writing on this platform. I wanted to write a happy go lucky, 10 best Christmas gifts for 2022 list, or the joys of the white elephant gift party story, and indeed, I may still write those, but after hearing about the passing of Mr. Stephen “tWitch” Boss to suicide, I decided that this is the story that needed to be written. I know I am not the first or the last to say it, but we really need to check in with our friends, who seem to have it all together. We never know what is going on behind closed doors or the closed doors of other’s minds. That is the lesson we learn when people who have been smiling, entertaining, and living their lives seemingly out loud decide to take the very permanent solution to a horrible yet temporary situation.
By Nailah Robinson3 years ago in Psyche
IV.
Jermaine Lamarr Cole released his fifth studio album, KOD, appositely, on April 20th, 2018. The title, having three distinct meanings, reveals the work's thrust, the problem that inspired his conversations. Kids on Drugs, King Overdosed, Kill Our Demons. We are dying, he says, before we have lived.
By kp3 years ago in Psyche
III.
Bump? The young man apologizes, revealing his assumption that I’d accept any drug. He determined this, he says, by my relaxed sweats and Hawaiian button-up; lime-green GameBoy; Hokusai copy (not the great wave) hanging; Jose silver next to game leaves; and my confessed exploits with microdosing during this day’s regularly scheduled programming. I tell myself (hardly in earnest) that he is most likely correct and accept his offering. He says I am ‘the real,’ and I am left to decipher what this means from his earlier list of observations. I decide it must refer to people who are chronically depressed and filling pesky emotional voids with persistent substance abuse and tedious displays of appropriated interests. He rambles for some time before he tells me again that I’m as real as it gets, adding that this assessment includes people who don’t have social media profiles. I don’t tell him I don’t have social media profiles. He has lionized this misanthropic manic enough.
By kp3 years ago in Psyche
V.
Apple juice. VeggieTales. Grape juice. Olive fingertips. Saturday mornings. Visiting the library and reading stacks. Climbing trees. Scooby-Doo and the gang.
By kp3 years ago in Psyche
II.
I moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan, at twenty-four years of age and thought I had lept before. I had lived in Kalamazoo for a year while attempting to attend Western and moved into a trailer on my own in Big Rapids. Yes, a two-hour drive to my parent's house down to a 10-minute bike ride, but independence was maintained, nonetheless. So I thought. I had paid only $250 a month for rent and had only juggled the cost of one or two utilities. I had never tried to manage a forty-hour work week to afford rising rent costs or the monopolized prices of energy and internet while managing a full course load in college. Up to that point, I had only done one or the other at any given time. I moved to Ypsi and learned I was slightly behind on the curve. With only a few hundred dollars in my bank account, it didn’t take long for the eviction notices to start piling up. The final call to court prompted the mass sale of my personal belongings. Clothing, games, pills and weed, services, and a keyboard my parents paid six hundred dollars for. That money should have gone towards their mortgage, but they believed in the off-chance that I would learn how to play.
By kp3 years ago in Psyche
When is the RIGHT time to build self-confidence and how?
Now. Whether you are a student, a fresh graduate, unemployed, employed, retired, a parent, a child, or a grandparent…it doesn’t matter. Your mental health requires attention now.
By Kahlee 3 years ago in Psyche
What are some inspirational sentences, articles, or videos that make you feel brighter or wake you up?
1. I stayed up all night studying because I never attended classes, tried to lose weight because I never controlled eating snacks, and I began to regret breaking up because I didn't give enough attention before. So others began to admire your diligence, sympathy for your experience, but only you know, your pain is deserved.
By chao3 years ago in Psyche
Fear of Losing
It's terrible to lose. Losing a cherished toy when you're young is absolutely upsetting. Losing a close friend might alter the path of your life as a teenager. Losing a trusted partner is painful when you're young. Losses during infancy, youth, and adulthood can cause anxiety to become stronger with age and eventually turn into pure horror of losing someone you care about. Although this fear is unhealthy, it frequently results in actions such as violence, control, and manipulation that are not appropriate in a loving, caring relationship. How then do you get over your fear of losing a loved one?
By Dr. Tulika Sarkar3 years ago in Psyche
Anger is not a solution
Humans are born with the impulse and emotion of anger. Anger is a natural response to emotional or physical harm. Everything is OK and even beneficial as long as the rage is under control. However, it can become a serious issue if rage spirals out of control. Then you'll need to learn how to control your anger, and frequent meditation practise can help.
By Dr. Tulika Sarkar3 years ago in Psyche
Broken Bones
1. The Devil I Know The door slammed Time and time again Another silhouette melting Into the distance Disappearing from everything
By Poppy 3 years ago in Psyche
Mental illness is not an aesthetic for social media.
So discovering new things on social media can be a pleasant experience. However, finding things that are upsetting is the norm, and sometimes it can be on an insane level. I've discovered a whole niche of people who romanticize mental illness. Don't get me wrong; there are real stories of people struggling with it, and we need to read them. Social media has been a powerful tool for people with mental illness to connect and expand the conversation around mental health. People have posted raw, honest stories about their mental health on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to give others a glimpse into what it feels like to live with a mental illness. But there's also a lot of people who use mental illness as an aesthetic for their Instagram or Tiktok accounts.
By Chris (Itookthecure)3 years ago in Psyche