It’s Not Always Sunny In Mental Health Recovery: 12 Hard Truths

Too many prefer gentle lies to hard truths. Shane Parrish Mental health recovery is kicking my ass. Let me level with you guys. I feel like I’m letting you down. I feel like I’m letting me down. I feel like I’m giving up. For these last 6 months, I have had the time and the …

Apathy: An Insidious Malady

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous. Chris long For most people, feeling some degree of apathy towards certain subjects is pretty normal. I feel apathetic about football games; it’s not something that I’m interested in, so I really just have no interest or care about …

My Mental Health: Persistent Depressive Disorder

That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. Elizabeth Wurtzel Hello, Readers! Welcome to my first …

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 The Winter Of My Discontent at the very beginning of what I view as my path to recovery. It was when I finally put my foot down and said, “Enough is enough. I’m going to …

My Mental Health: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

“The intrusive thought. The needling lack of logic. The obsession. The anxiety. They do not yield, but you can get better at ignoring it.” Hayden Carroll Hello, Readers! Welcome to my blog series, The My Mental Health Series. My hope with the series is to educate, advocate, and to let people know that they are …

Imposter Syndrome and other bad days

I’m having a depress… Me Today I want to talk about Imposter Syndrome and very bad days. First, Imposter Syndrome is defined as a psychological pattern when one doubts their abilities, talents, skills, and accomplishments and has an internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. I’m here to say it, my friends…I feel like …

The Winter Of My Discontent

“Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York;And all the clouds that lour’d upon our houseIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” -Richard III by William Shakespeare Welcome to the Winter of My Discontent In honor of purchasing the domain for my site last week, I decided to …

My Mental Health: Persistent Depressive Disorder

That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. Elizabeth Wurtzel Hello, Readers! Welcome to my first …

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 going to post again until Tuesday but, earlier this evening, I got word that my beloved grandmother is not long for our world and I wanted to post a poem for her. I can’t tell …

Thoughts, Goals, and Apathy

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. Roy T. Bennett Whew! I’ve been busy, my friends! As of today, The Winter Blog has a brand new web address, thewinterofmydiscontent.com!! I’m sticking with the same look for …