Slgtlyscatt3red
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Slightly scattered. Just a woman with autism and ADHD that loves to write poetry, create art, and sing.
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Seven Myths About Mental Illness
People living with mental illness experience stigma everywhere. We are often faced with stigma at home, in the workplace, at school, in hospitals and doctors offices, and in public settings. People living with mental illness struggle with discrimination in a world that is largely still unaccepting of mental illness diagnoses, even today.
By Slgtlyscatt3red9 months ago in Psyche
The 3 Etiologies of Mental Illness: the Supernatural, Somatogenic, and Psychogenic
The concept of mental illness dates all the way back to the Stone Age. However, our modern perception of what this means is far from the general understanding of mental illness in the past. Unlike other fields of medicine and science which usually follow a more linear pattern of discovery and research, the field of mental illness has taken a more cyclical pattern throughout history, with philosophers, doctors, and psychiatrists through the years circling between different theories of etiology relating to mental illness. Etiology is the study of finding the specific cause for a disease or condition. In general, there are three theories of etiology surrounding mental illness: the supernatural, somatogenic, and psychogenic.
By Slgtlyscatt3red9 months ago in Psyche
The Real Story of a Teacher During COVID
I began my journey as a teacher back in 2012. Fresh out of college then, I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. I don't think any amount of teacher prep programs can adequately prepare you for teaching; it's just something you have to learn by doing. At the ripe age of 23, I was a novice; completely unprepared for the journey ahead. However, I did learn a few valuable things in that first year. For example, sometimes you have to change the lesson plan right in the middle of teaching it. You should prepare for the unpredictable, and, take it from me, you should never spend too much money on incentives (candy) for your students because they are just going to end up stealing it all from you. (yes, that actually happened. Some kids broke into one of my cabinets and stole about 45-50 dollars worth of candy I had purchased for the school year.)
By Slgtlyscatt3red9 months ago in Education
Love Letters To No One: Letter #2
Sometime in 2018 Dear No One, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past two months, and in that time, I have written a lot of things, and then I came up with this crazy idea, which is to write you letters. I’m writing you a book of letters. I know that seems insane, but there is so much I want to say to you, so much I want to talk to you about, so many things I want you to know. I know we haven’t known each other for very long, but in the time that I have known you, I have figured a few things out. I think the whole premise of us meeting must have been some greater power in itself. Sometimes I just think to myself, how is it that we went to the same high school, knew some of the same people, were even in some of the same places at the same time, and yet, we didn’t really know each other? And how does it just so happen that years later, we meet each other and discover all these things? I’m the kind of person that believes that everything happens for a reason, and that’s why I really think, there must have been some reason, some force greater than the both of us, that led us to each other like this. I can’t think that that’s just coincidence, because in my mind, it’s not.
By Slgtlyscatt3red9 months ago in Chapters
Love Letters to No One: 2/25/18
February 25th, 2018 Dear No One, Today was so hard, and so beautiful at the same time. I spent 4 hours at the music store playing drums. 4 hours. It was the most beautiful day ever though. I wish I could tell you all this. I wish I could tell you and that you would understand. I’m really afraid that you don’t feel the way I do. That it’s a miscommunication. But I have it set in my mind (I think), that no matter what happens, I am going to show you all these things I’ve written to you. Maybe you don’t love me, but maybe seeing this will make you feel good. To know that you touched my heart so wonderfully.
By Slgtlyscatt3red9 months ago in Chapters
