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M is for Masking
This post actually goes hand in hand with my other post today, M is for (e)motionless. A quick recap of what happened – I went into the comments, basically got told I was writing blandly, and decided to respond. The commenter in question too…I guess a little offence that I wasn’t suffering the way he…
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D is for Depression #AtoZ2024
I don’t really think I can talk about mental health without talking about depression.But, at the same time, I don’t want to share anything trite. Depression is a complex and challenging condition that can often feel like being trapped in a cycle of negative thoughts and emotions – and once trapped there it’s often very…
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C is for C-PTSD
Today’s other post is C is for Challenging – over on Kaiberie.com.Challenging and CPTSD go hand in hand. And in my case, my CPTSD isn’t the ‘standard’ kind anyway. I hate to say it, but CPTSD is a bit difficult at the best of times – so I’ll try and explain what I can.The C…
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100 posts down, one archive recovery in progress, 600 drafts… Happy 21st Birthday Bi-polarbears!
On our 21st Birthday (today, officially), I just wanted to take a minute to acknowledge that we’re slowly working through the archive. If you go back as far as 2007, there’s a lot that I said that is not accurate in today’s mental health climate, or reflected the fact that I wasn’t actually bi-polar, but…
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AtoZ delays
I’ve been posting to all of the blosgs that I either run or help out on because, quite honestly, I’ve hit a wall. I wish I could say something positive, because of all things, I’m really trying to get my mindset to better places and thinking in better ways about things, but as I said…