Mental Health
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To Thine Own Self Be True
Note: One of my college classes this semester required us to write a ‘blog post’. This was my submission. Maybe I’ll start writing here regularly again… Authenticity: adjective When I was asking people what words they’d use to describe me, I heard quite a variety. But one came up almost every time: authentic. It’s a…
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Mental ‘Wellness’
My thoughts on the Mental Wellness industry. Warning: this post is a bit of a rant.
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Just write something!!!
Challenging myself to write something. Anything. Hardest part of writing, from what I understand, and am now experiencing, is just getting started. Forming that initial idea that sparks everything else after it. That said, I know that when I have that issue, I like to say that it’s because I can’t think of anything; but…
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Real Talk (the flip side)
Note: This will be much more hopeful and uplifting…I promise. So the last post was very…shall I say, depressing and somber. I intentionally left it without a hopeful note at the end because that’s reality for a lot of people. They do everything they can despite the lot they’ve been given in life and get…
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Real talk
I’m kinda scared. Scared cause everything that my life has been for the last 3-5 years is potentially changing soon and I’m scared I’m not gonna make it out there in the ‘real world’ on my own. I mean, I’ve lived in society…but I’ve never really thrived. It’s honestly just felt like setback after setback,…
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Building a Better Me
“Who are you that lies When you stare in my face?Telling me that I’m just a trace Of the person I once was‘Cause I just can’t tell If you’re telling the truth or a lieOn you I just can’t rely, After all you’re just a piece of glass” “Piece of Glass” by Caedmon’s Call “I…
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How did I get here?
You may ask yourselfWhere does that highway go to?And you may ask yourselfAm I right? Am I wrong?And you may say to yourself“My God! What have I done?” Once in a Lifetime by The Talking Heads Since getting diagnosed, I have spent the following weeks looking back at my life and seeing a lot of…
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Adding a Kickstart
I haven’t had much of a history with medications until recently. Growing up, I never got regularly prescribed them, and I was the kind of person that didn’t really take them when it came to headaches or colds either. It’s not like I was avoiding them because of a fear of what they would to…
Suddenly Delayed 