The first step to overcoming my mental health issues was figuring out how to handle my deep sadness and mental anguish. Of all my maladies, the depression is the worst for me; at its worst …
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Are you aware that May is National Mental Health Awareness Month?
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Gonna be singin’ about the dark times
If you want light, there has to be dark. My journey has been to learn how to handle myself when that darkness takes over like an eclipse, and to embrace it. photo taken at the …
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Peeling the layers poem
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panic attack poem
One of the first things I was taught to calm down was to breathe out longer than I was breathing in. This slows you down and gets you breathing again. So simple in theory.
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social anxiety poem
Alcohol helped all of this tremendously, but then I couldn’t do anything without it. Now when I socialize I tend to go into a safe corner, and people come to me. That stomach churn though, …