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 …
Mental Health Blogging: 8 Proven Do’s and Don’ts
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything substantial and I’m not sure that’s what I’m bringing you today. I’m still dealing with some creative block. I’ve had a lot going on and my day job takes a lot of brainpower, so I haven’t had a lot left over. That said, I have gained a …
MMH: 9 Covert Mental Compulsions
It’s like looking through a magnifying glass that only picks up on the potentially dangerous, harmful, and scary. unknown Hello, my lovelies! Thank you for being here because I have a super important, super exciting announcement to make. I am nominated for Blogger Of The Year at the MH Blog Awards this year! But there …
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 — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” E.E. Cummings When I wrote My Mental Health: ADHD, I intended to give a well-rounded view of how ADHD affects the people …
My Mental Health: ADHD
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. G.K. Chesterton Hello, Readers! Welcome to my first ever blog series, The My Mental Health Series. My hope over the next five weeks is to educate, advocate, and to let people know that they are not alone in …
My Mental Health: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
“Post traumatic stress injury isn’t a disease. It’s a wound to the soul that never heals.” Tom Glenn 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 not alone. For 38 years, I did not …
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 …
Finding A Therapist: 8 Powerful Tips
“Someone’s therapist knows all about you.” Dominic Riccitello I was talking to a good friend the other day who is going through a rough time. They have been afraid of going to therapy to deal with some trauma; afraid of what they would find or remember. They reached out last week and said they were …
Lullaby: Music’s Amazing Healing Power
Music brings us pleasure and releases our suffering. It can calm us down and pump us up. It helps us manage pain, run faster, sleep better and be more productive. Alex Doman Music. What can I possibly say about music and the way that it heals me. Let me preface by saying: I AM NOT …
Hysterical: Humor and Mental Illness
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Erma Bombeck hu·mor/ˈ(h)yo͞omər/ noun1.the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.”his tales are full of humor”2.a mood or state of mind.”her good humor vanished”verbcomply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, …