Photo taken by contributor Jaeda DeWalt, a conceptual self-portrait artist in her forties from Seattle, Washington. Jaeda’s battles with mental illness hearken back to her earliest memories, at age 4, when she became obsessed with the number four and performed exhaustive rituals in patterns of four. She struggled with her mental health throughout her childhood and teen years until her late twenties when […]
http://brokenlightcollective.com/2016/03/21/fighting-for-sanity/
Anxiety is my 3yo niece biting her arm when she’s uncomfortable because she doesn’t know how to react Anxiety is my mom pulling her fingers through her hair until I hold her hand to stop her when she has too many things to do and not enough time Anxiety is my dad trying to close […]
Sugar… it’s not great for your mental health. Obviously, there are good sugars (those you find in fruits, etc.), but there is lots of bad sugar (sugar added to our foods, found in our beverages, and our “treats”). So, let me talk briefly about my recent experience with sugar. A month or so ago, my […]
http://journeytocalm.org/2016/03/22/have-anxiety-avoid-sugar-heres-why/
*This article may contain triggering content. Readers view at their own discretion. It was at age fourteen, as we left the doctor’s office with a spare K10 test, a diagnosis of three mental illnesses, a referral to a psychologist and a prescription for Fluoxetine, that my parents said “it’s probably best to keep quiet about […]
Song of the day: “Hey Alice” – Rachel Rose Mitchell I’m feeling restless, and it won’t go away. I’m trying to find something to do to ease the anxiety. Colour in a colouring book? No. Knitting? No. People who can actually ease their anxiety through such activities can’t have very severe anxiety. I’ll probably get […]
https://21centurydreamer.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/anxiety-speaks-2/
I’m still up. 1:45AM. It’s a classic sleepless night before an early morning. My thought patterns are awful and I just want to sleep. Everything is loud in my head. I need to stop thinking. The noisy ac unit. The tireless helicopter looking for more poor people to fine and imprison. The bones of a ceiling […]
The flames begin as bright rage a train wreck of rushing water through broken windpipes and out of tune voice boxes/ an endless series of darts thrown head on a fistful of promises and crushed violets an exposed wire knotting my arms into concrete force of bitter beginnings but you know what they say […]
https://apoetswork.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/a-fire-cant-burn-forever/
I was born with addicts running reckless in my family Addiction meandered up and down my veins Planning the perfect time to strike Hitting me like I’d imagine an 18-wheeler would It’s said that if you live by the sword, you die by the sword Tell that to my cousins In and out of jails, […]
https://ainslianity.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/genetics-of-addiction/
Surprisingly, there’s very little written on this topic. Yet, guilt is something we’ve all struggled with! Perhaps you’re struggling with guilt and shame right now. How many times have we said, “I feel guilty for doing that.” Or to someone else, “It’s okay friend, no need to feel guilty about it!” But the feelings and […]
https://hopefedsite.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/guilt-and-its-solution/
A volcano will erupt, what goes up must come down, the truth will set you free? It better…. Thursday at 4pm I received a phone call. R had attempted suicide. He took a knife, slit his wrist and then took a pair of scissors and cut his main artery in half. He very nearly died […]
https://lovelossregrowth.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/and-the-truth-is-revealed/
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