Understanding your anxiety, finding your calm In a world of growing mental health awareness, it comes as no surprise that anxiety is one of the most common diagnoses. While it’s perfectly normal to feel anxious once in a while, it’s not normal for anxiety to…
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100 Alternatives to Self-Harm
Please Share this Post – You Never Know Who Needs It✨ Trigger Warning: Mentions of self-harm. Please read with care. If you’re reading this and you’re in pain, I see you. And I need you to hear this: you are not alone. There’s no shame…
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Dating Someone With Bipolar Disorder
As a woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I’m not naïve to how people often respond to the label. That’s exactly why I wrote this. If you’re dating (or thinking of dating) someone with a mental illness, take a moment to drop the assumptions and open…
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You’re Not Alone
Literally, figuratively, emotionally, spiritually – you’re not alone in what you’re going through.But I know.That sentence can feel hollow when the world around you is quiet and no one’s picking up the phone. They say, “You’re not the only one,” and they’re right – your…
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Wounds That Time Won’t Heal
What is Child Trauma? “Child trauma” refers to a scary, dangerous, violent, or life-threatening event that happens to a child (0–18 years of age). This type of event may also happen to someone the child knows, and they may be impacted as a result of…
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Okay to Not be Okay. Really!
Sometimes it feels like society expects us to be happy all the time, like showing sadness is some kind of weakness.What the fuck? Seriously.If you bottled up all your sadness and anger, you’d eventually explode. We all have good and bad days.No one is perfectly…
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Lists to Make When You are Feeling Down
Some days, your mind feels heavy. It gets hard to focus, hard to breathe, hard to see the light. When you’re not feeling your best mentally, it can cast a shadow over everything, and even the simplest tasks feel overwhelming. I’ve found that writing things…
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Stop Using Mental Illness as an Insult
This needs to be said more often than it is.Using mental illness as a way to insult someone is not edgy.It’s not clever.It’s harmful. Every time I see someone throw around words like “psycho,” “bipolar,” or “schizo” as an insult, my chest tightens. It’s not…
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How to Stay Positive in a Negative Situation
I know… It’s not always that easy.Especially when you’re stuck in the middle of something painful. Sometimes, it feels f**king impossible to stay positive, at least at first. What’s important to remember is this: bad things happen to everyone, and most of the time, they’re…
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100 Things That Makes Me Happy
Oftentimes, I catch myself focusing too much on the negatives. I think a lot of us do; we dwell on the things that stress us out or make us anxious way more than we celebrate what actually brings us joy. So today, I made a…