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My Mental Health: Support Systems

People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and…

featured, friends, friendship, mental health blog, mental health support systems, mental-health, mental-health-recovery, support systems

If You Forget: A Poem For My Mamaw

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. Anne Roiphe I wasn’t…

dementia, Depression, grandma, Grief, losing-a-loved-one, poetry, prose, prose-poetry

My Mental Health Glossary

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Kofi Annan I’ve decided to do my first ever blog series and I felt…

ADHD, Anxiety, cptsd, glossary, glossary-of-mental-illness, mental-health, mental-health-journey, mental-health-recovery, mental-illness, neurodivergent, ocd
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10 Reasons You Should Have a Morning Routine

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps…

morning routines, routines, self care, wellness
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10 Ideas For Finding A Simple Daily Routine With ADHD

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. Mike Murdock I read this article from ADDitude Magazine today and…

ADHD, attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder, daily routines, planning, routines, schedules
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My Path to Recovery: A Simple Look At How I Got Here

Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time. Billy Joel I started…

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10 Undeniable Truths From My Blogging Journey

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. Barack Obama I’ve…

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8 ADHD and Mental Illness Truths Everyone Should Know

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as…

ADHD, attention-deficit-disorder, attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder, mental health blog, mental illness, mental-health
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Why I’m Speaking Out (and how you can too!)

“This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.” Euripides Speaking out is hard to do. I spend a lot of…

ADHD, advocacy, attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder, mental health advocacy, mental-health, mental-health-blog
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My Mental Health: Support Systems

People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and…

featured, friends, friendship, mental health blog, mental health support systems, mental-health, mental-health-recovery, support systems

My Mental Health: ADHD Extended

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else…

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Grief and Numbness

“Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of…

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The Waves of Grief

“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse de Lamartine Grief. It has me. I’ve…

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