coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
Tourette's: Growing up with the Disorder I Never Knew I Had
In the third grade, my class and I were eating lunch in the cafeteria. One of my classmates, John, sat at the table and brought out a large bag of Airheads: The holy grail of candies to a bunch of nine-year-olds. The craziest part is that he was giving pieces of them away to everyone at the table.
By Jonathan Miciano8 years ago in Psyche
I'm Done With My Shame Complex
I realize that I’m done with my shame issues. Here I have felt like I need to hide still, away from average people, hiding out my whole life. While because of 22q I have minor anatomical differences, I realize I’m good-looking. Feeling shame leads to feeling angry. Source. I’ve decided not to be as self-destructive anymore as I used to be with my alcoholism and caffeine addiction. I’m done feeling ashamed of myself, just because I think I need a therapist, which I have found, so don’t worry about that.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Psyche
Singing the Pain Away
Although I only started learning how to play an instrument less than a year ago, I’ve been trying to write songs for years. It was something that I aspired to. Musicians don’t make much, lonely musicians make even less. But poetry and tune came naturally even when I didn’t know how to make them sound quite good. I still struggle with this, but I’m improving slowly.
By Will Jackson8 years ago in Psyche
Secrets Your Mind Keeps From You
Do you know what I find terrifying? I find it terrifying that I have gone through something so horrific that my mind and memory won't let me remember what happened. All I have been left with is this deep aching feeling in the pit of my stomach with hazing feelings of discomfort. If I close my eyes it is as if I were swimming in an ocean made up of clouds, unable to see the surface and quickly running out of breath. Wanting so badly to break through the surface. Please! Someone help me! I am drowning... please... No one can hear me. Nobody can see me drowning. It is all in my head, but it was happening.. I felt it, why won't anyone believe me? I am alone to figure out what happened to me.
By Kameron McLain8 years ago in Psyche
Casually Suicidal
Most people, if asked their biggest fear, will list off things like spiders, heights, or drowning. But It's hard to fear things like drowning, when you feel like your drowning every single day of your life. I can't really remember a time when I didn't feel this way. I can almost pinpoint the moment I first thought about killing myself, yet it's almost like my consciousness didn't exist before then. Or maybe my mind has boxed up all of those memories. Wrapped them carefully. Stored them safely under the folds of my mind, so no one could corrupt them. I like to think the second one is the truth. But since the age of 10 suicide seems like the only thing that’s consistently on my mind. The only thing that has stuck by me, through thick and thin. For better and for worse.
By K. L. Champitto8 years ago in Psyche
The 'Troubled' Artist. Top Story - August 2018.
Through the years, art has had a tendancy to connect itself to mental health. There is a cliche concept of the 'troubled artist.' Hearing of Van Gogh slicing off his own ear, such stories can stick like glue to the whole profession. In general, there can be assumptions of art linking to mental illness. Though, searching for evidence, there honestly is little to no concrete proof of art being a source mental illness. With that being said, I'd like to address how mental health can be intertwined with art, from my experience.
By 'Toto' (Aleksina Teto)8 years ago in Psyche
Grief
Sitting around a bed with close family quite literally watching a loved one take their last breath is indelible. Long fights with cancer are more common than ever and yet nothing can prepare you for that final breathe, no matter how long you've known it's in the cards.
By Daniel Noble8 years ago in Psyche
Give Yourself Permission to Be Different
It feels like it’s been a while. It has been a while. I’ve been trying to reconnect and it hasn’t been going well. It’s not that writing feels like work really, but that I’ve kinda become upset with the branding that has come with it. I have lost touch with it. I don’t want to do it. And it kind of sucks to see people who want to see me write become disappointed by the fact that I have given up something real to live this dream life and I have somehow managed to latch on-to a failure mentality before I’ve even started my career.
By cavia oplicus8 years ago in Psyche
My Life with Anxiety Disorder
In 2012, I was attending church on a rainy night. All of a sudden, my hands start to sweat, and my heart starts to race a million miles an hour. I rush to the women's bathroom with the fear that I would have a heart attack or pass out. It was so hard to breathe because my chest was tight. My mom finds me in the bathroom and takes me outside. When I describe my symptoms to her, she tells me I'm having a panic attack. It was a surprise to me. At the time I didn't feel panicky. That's probably a foolish thought. However, my mom tells me that a panic attack can happen for no reason. She suffers from the same condition.
By Sarah Loyd8 years ago in Psyche
How I Made Positive Changes to My Mental Health
When I was young, I spent all my time putting myself down, battling my thoughts and feelings, not giving self-confidence a second thought, and feeling I was not worth anything. This was a result of the emotional and physical abuse I had endured in my childhood and early adulthood. As I got older and became a parent, I developed a very long struggle with my mental health, and I realized that something had to change or I would continue to lose everything.
By Carol Ann Townend8 years ago in Psyche
