humanity
Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.
I Am
Where do I begin? I don't really feel I have ever “fit in”. I know I have “fit in” but I never really FELT that I did. I have always had this feeling of being outside of what was going on around me. It feels as though I am staring through a looking glass. Like I am the constant observer of what is going on around me, not the willing participant. I tried for many years to actually feel like I fit into our current society. Ironically enough, the copious amount of drugs I used to attempt to do this only created the opposite effect. I became more of an outcast of modern society. It is only recently that I have accepted the fact that I do not think like the majority of people. And I have become completely okay with that. I spent many long nights researching why I think or act the way I do. I know from studying the MBTI that my personality is the rarest for a female. Maybe that is it? I was determined to be gifted at the age of 11. Maybe that is it? I could come up with theories as to why forever. I do very much like thinking in theory. It quite possibly be a combination of all of the theories I have mulled over back and forth. Frankly, it probably is. However, at the end of all this theorizing and constant back and forth of why am I the way I am, I discovered something truly important. It does not matter why I am the way I am. I just am. It does not matter if it was nature, nurture or a combination of both. It simply does not matter. The only thing that matters is that I am. I am that I am. And I am completely content and happy in that fact.
By Andrea Capitano5 years ago in Psyche
Disordered
Another child is talking to you, But the lights are too bright, the books and shelves and feet and voices are too loud, the colours are too brilliant. It all melds together into one noisy, tyrannical soup, surging towards you and entrapping you in the chaos.
By Elyse Williams5 years ago in Psyche
How a Bad Mental Health Day Sparked My Medium Journey
It was a typical Monday evening. I perched on the window sill with my hands wrapped around my face. I was having a bad day with my OCD — I had managed to stay strong for the entire morning, but I couldn’t take anymore that evening. It is like those Jenga blocks, where one wrong move is enough to tumble down your carefully constructed tower (my tower, in this case, is my resolve to stand up to OCD).
By Lumos Leviosa5 years ago in Psyche
I never really fit in
I’ve never really fit in. I was always the nerdy kid with his nose stuck in a book reading the stories because I wished I was living those stories. I was the teenager who wore the black trenchcoat before it became infamous to do so, because it was a way to protect myself from all the jocks and preps who decided the geeky outsider needed to be picked on each day. Even as an adult, I find it hard to fit in. Forget small talk. I really don’t know do it all that well. With my conversations, we either go deep or I go home.
By Taylor Ellwood5 years ago in Psyche
Conquer inferiority and surpass yourself
Inferiority is a kind of negative self-evaluation or self-awareness, and inferiority is a kind of negative emotion that individuals have low evaluation of their own ability and quality. The root cause is that people do not like to use realistic standards or standards to measure themselves, but believe or assume that they should meet certain standards or standards.
By JESSICA MCNEIL 5 years ago in Psyche
Is Is Just Me
I think as we are little, we make friends more easily. No one judges each other it is just that simple and intuitively. But as we grow up and continue to learn. Our experiences start to shape us. We are no longer the same person when we were first born.
By J.W. Baird5 years ago in Psyche
Staying Sane in Dizzying Times
As the world spirals into a miasma of Uber speed change and accelerated events around us leave us flabbergasted, how do we stay sane when things change by the time one reads this sentence. Indeed, the Pandemic has been the spark that lit the fire of imploding world events. In a manner similar to the humungous number of funeral pyres across the nation, what we are now seeing is a “bonfire of vanities” where hubris is having its comeuppance.
By Rammohan Susarla5 years ago in Psyche
Love Analyzed
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Nietzsche “I sometimes think that love is a dirty word and much dirtier than pussy, for example. All we need is love. I don’t think as much anymore. All we need is the silence of a kind breeze, the shade of a happy tree, the sight of a blue sky, the knowledge that the Sun is still there at night, sending its rays of life and death. Love is already in the fabric of these moments and there’s no need to extract it and give it even more meaning when it simply doesn’t merit it.”
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Psyche
Interpretation
There are different ways to interpret an idea, even a word. The Sun is very far away, but the Sun is also very near since I can see it in your eyes. I do not like Carl Jung but I still like you when you mention his ideas or think that he was right. I love Freud but you may not. Will you dislike me because I do? I adore Nietzsche but many do not for one reason or another. Many people refuse to hear the truth since it counters any beliefs they may hold. Change is difficult to accept. It is hard to wear a mask on top of a mask on top of a mask. The only important mask is the one we wear to hopefully avoid and beat COVID.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Psyche
I went from beautifully broken to unbelievable badass.
I’ve had low self-esteem for as long as I can remember. I can’t tell you why or how or what caused it, all I can tell you is that from a very early age I somehow just knew I was “less than”. I loved to talk but was always told I talked too much. Anytime I spoke up with an opinion or a thought that went against the majority, I was then made the subject of ridicule and called “stupid” or “dumb” because obviously, I wasn’t smart enough to go with the crowd. That was just one of my major flaws.
By Simply Stacey 5 years ago in Psyche
