The day after my suicide, I loved my mother even more, when I saw her crying on the floor of my room, hugging my clothes with my photos scattered around her, I saw so much love past the tears in her eyes. The day after…
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Anxiety Triggers and What To Do When You Feel Anxious
In a world of growing mental health awareness, it comes as no surprise that anxiety is one of the leading diagnoses. While it’s perfectly normal to have some anxiety on a fleeting basis, it’s not normal for it to wreak havoc on your day-to-day life.…
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Stop Using Mental Illness as Labels
In current times mental health information has become more visible and accessible to many of us. People are starting to learn a lot about a certain diagnosis or term, which can be really useful. Unfortunately, partly due to several popular TV shows, movies, songs, and…
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100 Alternatives to Self-Harm
Trigger Warning Please share this post! It could really help someone in need and you never know who is suffering in silence. Note: If you are at risk please call a crisis line and reach out to your loved ones. If you self-harm please start…
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Why Psychiatrists Won’t Listen to Patients
Why won’t many psychiatrists listen to patients? Your psychiatrist is supposed to be helping you. Your psychiatrist is supposed to be on your side. You and your psychiatrist are supposed to be a team to fight mental illness together. But this just doesn’t always turn out to be true. So…
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Just Venting – Might Delete It
I have started this post so many times I’ve lost count. My heart was guiding me to write it because I know I’m not alone, but there was also a part of me that was worried about what others might think and I don’t like…