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Five things to try when depressed #atozchallenge
Depression is a horrible thing – it affects one in four of us, (though I think the statistic is much higher) and often, leads to more serious issues, such as anxiety, and insomnia, or conversely, can be fed by them. I’ve always been hesitant to offer advice about managing depression, in part because I don’t…
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C is for CPTSD #atozchallenge
CPTSD has been a persistent part of my diagnosis for a few years now, in part because we just refused to accept that I had EUPD. And while many survivors of childhood abuse have CPTSD, I’m one of the few that don’t have it due to what happened to me at home, as a child.…
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B is for Being not doing #atozchallenge
If I’m not careful, I get to be very opinionated about labels and stuff. I was going to do ‘why it’s dumb that most bipolars are being reclassified as borderline’ but…I’m grabbing for any positive posts I can make. Though, to be fair, because of how I describe some of this stuff, I suspect this…
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A new normal? #atozchallenge
I suspect this isn’t the article that many people are expecting, as I’m not going to be making my predictions on what things will look like when the world settles down after the pandemic, and vaccines and everything else. Instead, I’m going to be talking about my new normals, because in the last 18 years,…
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#AtoZchallenge2021 – The AtoZ of Mental Health
(I’ll touch on being 18 this year in another post!) I’m going to try – again – to do an AtoZ of mental health, though, I’m hoping to focus more on positives, but I’ll be talking about some serious topics too, like bullying, CPTSD and psychosis. But I’m hoping to touch on some things that…