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My Father Wound Is the Size of a Melon
I’d bricked up the ache I had felt from my father’s lack of love or concern for me, a long time ago. I drank the pain away and morphed it into a sexy, vivacious, and fun-loving party lover. It’s true, I did lose days to heartache and hangovers, but that’s Yin and Yang, right?
By Chantal Christie Weiss2 months ago in Psyche
The Night I Understood Football
I didn’t go to the game expecting hope. It was a cold November Thursday. My brother had just lost his job. My nephew hadn’t spoken in days after a school incident. The world felt heavy, and the last thing I wanted was to watch a mismatch—our hometown team facing a dynasty that hadn’t lost in months.
By KAMRAN AHMAD2 months ago in Psyche
New Year's resolution for mental health
New Year's resolution for mental health As we stand at the threshold of a new year, it's natural to pause and reflect on the journey behind us while looking forward to the path ahead. The New Year holds a symbolic power, inviting us to reset and renew our outlook on life. It serves as a unique opportunity, a psychological landmark that inspires intentional change. While many focus on physical health or career goals, it's crucial to recognize that the foundation of all transformation lies in our mental health.
By Actual Bit2 months ago in Psyche
Watch Out Wednesdays - Christmas Eve Edition. Content Warning.
Merry Christmas to everyone! Let's look at some things to watch out for today on Christmas Eve. 1. Be observant. Today, some people are rushing around to grab last-day gifts before Christmas. Get a kick out of the ones that are running around frantically in a store. These people are procrastinators. Take the time to observe what you are doing so that you will not become a procrastinator like the rest of the mediocre masses that surround you on a daily basis.
By Adrian Holman2 months ago in Psyche
The Power of Resilience: Developing Mental Toughness in the Time of Adversity
Adversity is something that we all encounter in life at some point or another. Whether it's loss personally, financial struggles, career disappointment, or even mental challenges, life has a way of challenging our resolve. While we can't always control the circumstances that cause us pain or distress, something we can control is our response to them. That's where resilience comes in. Resilience is the ability to rebound from adversity and transform positively amid adversity. Yet it's not about rebounding but being stronger, wiser, and better capable in the process.
By The Chaos Cabinet2 months ago in Psyche
Why Identity Is Not Self-Constructed: Mental Health and the Social Feedback Loop
Whitman Drake Abstract Contemporary mental health discourse frequently treats identity as an internally authored construct—something individuals can revise through cognition, self-reflection, or therapeutic insight. This assumption underlies popular clinical and cultural narratives that emphasize self-esteem, positive self-talk, and personal meaning-making as primary mechanisms of psychological stability. While these approaches offer partial benefits, they obscure a deeper and empirically supported reality: identity is not self-constructed in isolation. Rather, it emerges through sustained social feedback, recognition, and institutional response. Drawing on symbolic interactionism, social psychology, and mental health research, this article argues that mental health outcomes are inseparable from relational processes that validate or destabilize identity over time. Understanding identity as socially constituted clarifies why individual-level interventions often fail, why distress clusters around structural conditions, and why durable mental health requires collective as well as personal change.
By Whitman Drake2 months ago in Psyche
The Empty Chair:. AI-Generated.
The waiting room looked ordinary at first glance rows of plastic chairs, a merchandising system buzzing in the corner, fluorescent lighting fixtures buzzing overhead. people came and went, shuffling papers, checking phones, whispering to each other in hushed tones. but one chair always stood out.
By The Writer...A_Awan3 months ago in Psyche
