coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
Are You Okay?
This first piece about mental health that I am about to dive into comes as a forward jump (also as personal experience. Not scientific). I am not starting at the beginning, but I suppose I will one day. This piece is for those who are in the in-between stage. The stage of more highs than lows but having mass amounts of guilt for having lows in the first place. That is not to say that this isn't for those who are looking for a light.
By Analesia Giammusso5 years ago in Psyche
Alone
Yes it’s me again, laying in bed, prisoner in my own mind. I never knew how real depression and anxiety are. I thought it would never hit me. Oh it did! I am in a spiral of the same thoughts, screaming silently. I am in a house full of people but alone in my mind. No one understands, no one reaches out abs no one catches me when I fall!
By Evelyn Gebele-Baker5 years ago in Psyche
Three Stressors Some People Are Experiencing at This Time
There are at least three issues going on at this time that are causing tremendous stress for people, including this writer. Those things affect many people instead of being reserved just for people with mental illness. Physicians and therapists say they are treating people who are going through three main public stressors without counting their own personal stressors.
By Margaret Minnicks5 years ago in Psyche
Schizo Mind During the Time of Corona
Life in a general sense is already fraught with complex choices, situations, players, uncertainties, and information. Life is already difficult, even before World wide shutdowns and pandemic safety measures. Sprinkle in being a single dad, legally can't be near children's mother, still paying bills on place I don't live, unemployed, and living with schizoaffective disorder. Everyone has coped very differently during these dark times. How did I survive this? How did most people deal with isolation? Here are a few things I've most focused on to stay mentally healthy.
By FRANK? Piccolella5 years ago in Psyche
If you can go back in time.
I know. Is a very cliché question. If you can go back in time what would you change about yourself? I use to have this question in the back of my mind whenever I have scramble eggs and coffee. The coffee always remind me that I am older and the scrambles always remind me that I might have high cholesterol. This is one of the question that I personally feel like we need to ask ourselves at least once a month.
By Ruby Castro5 years ago in Psyche
The Beauty in Pain
I was never a stranger to tattoos. I grew up with them. My mother and my aunts were always getting tattoos when I was small, planning new artwork all the time. We are all artists. We allow our bodies to act as a canvas too. I even remember one night, walking out into the kitchen to see a stranger standing over my mother with a needle. I used to beg her to find a way to give me a tattoo too. Her reply was always simply, "Only when you're old enough." This influence led me to always have an interest in modifying my body, making myself into something uniquely me. I had gotten piercings at a young age and planned for tattoos as soon as I was able. Life never turned out as planned, though.
By Hailee Elizabeth5 years ago in Psyche
Mental Health
I have depression. I have anxiety. I sometimes want to just lay in bed all day, feel nothing, and not talk to anyone. However, my depression might be different from yours, or from the person walking by us on the street. It does not make any of our experiences less valid.
By Emily McDonald5 years ago in Psyche
Optical Illusions. Top Story - October 2020.
During the spring semester of my freshman year, a friend named Sophie convinced me to attend meetings held by my college's Hillel Society. I am not Jewish, but since I was friendless and didn't have anything better to do, I came to the miniscule meetings where the club watched films on Judaism and ate kosher pizza. Born and raised Catholic, I felt like an intruder. But people welcomed me, and for a few weeks, I was less alone than I was before.
By Kathryn Milewski5 years ago in Psyche
living with mental illness
Why do people keep telling me mental illness it's just a phase or it's not that big of a deal. If it's not that big of a deal then why do i have to go to therapy for it and pay for meds to at least have some serotonin even if it's chemical so that i can do my tasks during the day and be productive. First things first, ask yourself how easy is it for someone to accept that they have a mental illness? It's not that easy... right, They Are still accepting it, at this point They're in a defensive mode towards either it or Themselves. And maybe we have more than one mental illness to accept cause they don't come alone at all.
By Alexandra Gomez5 years ago in Psyche
Living With ADHD
For the past 26 years I have lived undiagnosed with ADHD. The fact that I have came up with my own coping skills amazed my therapist. Finally getting the diagnosis explains so much of my childhood, my college education, my marriage, and my children.
By Kasey Slagle5 years ago in Psyche
