The thing about mental illness is that it can act like a giant magnet, completely skewing your internal emotional compass so that it's hard to distinguish between symptoms and regular emotions.
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Gratitude for My Recovery Progress This Year, on HealthyPlace
I'm grateful to my terrific therapist, my wonderful husband, my relentlessly supportive friends, and I'm grateful to myself, for doing this difficult work.
Life Update: Brought To You By Emotional Exhaustion
I feel like my brain is just constantly processing and coping and that's great, really, my life is so much better now than it was five or even just one year ago because of this, but the result is just constant exhaustion.
Suicide Awareness Month, on HealthyPlace
How seriously are you supposed to take these kinds of thoughts when you know you don't really want to die, but at the same time, the idea of continuing to exist as your horrible self fills you with dread and rage?
How Playing a Barbarian in D&D Is Helping Me Reclaim My Anger
When it comes to my anger, one of my best tools is actually Dungeons and Dragons.
17 Things to Expect From Your First Therapy Appointment
You can sit wherever you want. No, really.
Depression in Recovery vs. Untreated Depression, on HealthyPlace
I'm with you in the painfully liminal space of recovery.
Why I Was Misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, on HealthyPlace
It's okay if it takes some time to figure out what's going on in your brain. Maybe if I tell you these things, I'll believe them too.
What It’s Like Living with an Internalized Shame Translator
Sometimes I don’t hear what people actually say at all. All I hear what my internalized shame tells me they’re saying.
Finding a More Effective Approach to Recovery on HealthyPlace
I'm so excited to make this post because I FINALLY found a way to move forward in recovery.
