Category: Mental Health
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The Words I Needed During My Anxiety Attack
Have you ever seen a friend have an anxiety attack? How did you react? Have you ever had an anxiety attack in front of your friends? If so, how did your friends react? Did they help you? Today I want to talk about an anxiety attack I had, and how…
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Mental Health Support Systems and Communities
Every time you call out, you’re a little less alone. In this post you will find a detailed list of mental health support systems and communities. My goal is to show you that you are not alone. You deserve support, and I want to make the process easier for you.…
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: An Untrendy Diagnosis
I’m living with a disorder that is misunderstood by the general public. My disorder is unfairly used as a punchline, a trendy adjective, and as a way to explain common organizational quirks. Today I want to set the record straight: that’s not what Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is. I’ll be using…
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My Mental Health Survival Kit
I’m living with Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and it causes a lot of unpredictability in my daily life. My goal is to lead a functional life; one that is unburdened by compulsions and anxiety. My “Mental Health Survival Kit” helps me overcome the unpredictability that mental illness can…
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What Ryan Reynolds Means to Me: Maximum Anxiety Effort
During the winter of 2016 I was an absolute train wreck. I was coping with the aftershock of a nervous breakdown, and working overtime to make sure no one knew about it. I had created an invisibility cloak for myself; a cloak fashioned from red wine, junk food, and an…
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10 Reassuring Things I Want to Hear You Say: Mental Health Awareness
I’m living with a mental illness, and sometimes that can cause people to verbally tiptoe around me, especially the people closest to me. It’s like my friends and loved ones are stuck walking on eggshells sometimes, and I want that to stop. I recently published a blog titled “10 ‘Harmless…
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10 “Harmless Things” You Say That Hurt Me: Mental Health Awareness
I’m letting my heart spill out through my keyboard… metaphorically, of course, and I’m offering it all to you. Today, I’m going to talk about my mental health. This is something that I’ve worked to conceal for a long time, mostly because of the negative stigma attached to mental illness.…
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The Logic of A Heart Going On
I was ten-years-old the first time I thought about the concept of suicide. I was watching the end of Titanic, the part where Old Rose is talking about her ex-fiancé; Caledon Hockley. Rose stated, “the crash of ‘29 hit his interests hard, and he put a pistol in his mouth…