depression
It is not just a matter of feeling sad; discover an honest view of the mental, emotional and physical toll of clinical depression.
Surviving Winter
Seasonal Affective Disorder, abbreviated accordingly as SAD, or better known as "winter depression," is described by the National Health Service (NHS) as a type of depression that comes and goes in a seasonal pattern. Symptoms include having a persistent low mood, irritability, despair and a general lack of energy. These symptoms are usually more apparent and more severe during the cold, dark winter days. One theory suggests that SAD might come from lack of exposure to sunlight, thereby affecting some parts of the brain responsible for controlling mood, appetite and sleep pattern. I remembered winter depression just recently when British Summer Time took 60 minutes back, and Ph is now plus 8 hours away. The gloom is coming, and as is heat tech undergarments and layers of clothing.
By Jen Piacos7 years ago in Psyche
Reaching Reality
Why do I only write when I’m feeling heartbreak? Is it because that is when I’m truly myself and having to face reality? I’ve always thought reality as an overrated concept. I never truly dealt with the events in my life. I never dealt with my childhood, depression, anxiety, heartbreak; nothing. It’s all still their lingering and at times, it’ll all sink in at once, but I go on in life like nothing has ever happened to me. I smile, try to show others happiness and give their life fulfillment, even though I am left with nothing, but emptiness. All the time. I think I do this because I know how it feels to be the one feeling nothing but oblivion, and I wouldn’t want anyone to feel that way. With a life that has been based off many lies, betrayals, and emptiness, there starts to become ways of rejecting reality.
By Nicole White7 years ago in Psyche
Depression
When I was ten, I felt like I was going through a pretty big change mentally and spiritually. I became more aware of a lot of life's bigger questions. My personality was developing more too. And with that all, came the depression. All I could describe it as, was a dark shadow floating over me. A feeling like nothing else, and not something someone my age at the time, should be experiencing.
By Ashly Arbes7 years ago in Psyche
Is There Really a "Post-Abortion Syndrome"?
Reversing Roe is a documentary recently released on Netflix that looks at the attempts that have been made over the years to challenge the United States Supreme Court's decision on abortion in the Roe v. Wade case. It mentioned something referred to as "post-abortion syndrome," a spectrum of adverse mental health effects that occur following an abortion. As a mental health professional myself, I knew that this isn't a diagnosis in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), but I was curious to know more. While I support a woman's right to choose what happens with her own body, my focus here is not whether abortion is wrong or wrong, but rather whether post-abortion syndrome has been established as a legitimate phenomenon. I will use the term abortion to refer specifically to induced abortions rather than spontaneous abortions (i.e. miscarriages).
By Ashley L. Peterson7 years ago in Psyche
Depression
Heaviness—in your chest, in your stomach, or even in your head. Almost like you are being weighed down by heavy weights; only, you can't see or get a hold of them. You don't even know where they came from. You don't recall anything that may have caused it. You ignore it and call it a effect of bad weather, or the result of last night's bedroom argument, or just casually even feeling uneasy.
By Swati Shingala7 years ago in Psyche
Blackness
Ever have one of those days where you feel like you'd be better off dead? Once you have that one day, that thought consumes you. You start to visualize yourself gone from the world and you see the impact, or lack of, that would occur if you did not exist. If you are someone unimportant like me, your existence is not necessarily needed.
By Elijah Taylor7 years ago in Psyche
Depression
I have no friends, nobody likes me, I’m not good enough, I feel alone in this world, what would people think if I was gone, maybe this world will be better without me, I have no purpose here. Sadness, remorse, guilt, shame, anger, hate, empty, alone—these are all the feelings that come to our heads and swallow us whole into what we feel like is the abyss of our current lives struggling with depression.
By Emily Buehner7 years ago in Psyche
Stigma
Hello, sorry I’ve taken longer to write then I planned. Here is story number three. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for reading my other stories. Honestly I never thought I would get tips, I was just hoping to make some money off of reads. But people are actually tipping me, WOW! Thank you very much! This story is going to be part of a series I’m writing named “Stigma.” As I write my stories, I am trying to write them in different tones. This one is more of a personal/technical tone. I am trying to find out what genre and what tone people respond to the most favorably. Then once that is discovered, that's how I’ll write more often.
By Eugene Shattuck7 years ago in Psyche
What Depression Can Look Like
7/15/2018 I think I love people that don't love me because I'm scared of worrying people. The people that really care notice things, and they worry. But when all he loved was my body, it was easy to hide everything. I could continue destroying myself, I just had to be strategic where I took it out on myself. Short shorts and t-shirts can hide more than you'd think. When you don't go on dates, it's easy to hide that you aren't eating. I could pretend to be okay for an hour or two each day, it was easy. It was so fucking easy to just be a body. I wasn't depressed, I wasn't anxious, I wasn't relapsing. I was my body and that was it. He didn't care so he never noticed. And I think that's why I loved him so much, he cared about me as much as I cared about myself.
By Stormy Robertson7 years ago in Psyche
