There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
This community is here to provide our members a safe space to share their experience with mental health challenges they are facing - either their own or those of family or friends. Mental health problems are medical conditions and treatments are available to help people successfully manage their specific challenges.
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
This community is here to provide our members a safe space to share their experience with mental health challenges they are facing - either their own or those of family or friends. Mental health problems are medical conditions and treatments are available to help people successfully manage their specific challenges.
Mental Health Conditions Circle
It Wasn’t Me, I Wasn’t There
If anyone asks...it wasn’t me. I wasn’t even there. My defense….my paltry, paltry defense…my cage of denial. Went out to spend the weekend with that guy I went on a date with…Before I even went, I felt the frame shaking, the lug nuts unscrewing from the manifold, the engine knocking. Had already ...
The Shape I’m In
i have been on a merry-go-round with death since i was little, about 5 years old….ever since you said that awful thing to me. you’re useless to everyone. you should just kill yourself. in that moment, your words became a cruel god’s hands…and those hands plucked the ribs from thine own chest &am...
Throwaway Objects
found this letter in old boxes of writings...based on the fact that it mentions my grandmother's passing a week prior--it had to have been written in november of 2003. reading this letter, i am struck sadly by how sick i already was. it really was just a chutes & ladder game kind of slide int...
Sleeping is almost too easy!
So often I think about sitting down to write an entry. Yet, I never do. It sounds like too much working. Sitting here typing just feels exhausting. Then I start to question what I could write. How I could write. Would it make sense? Would it be good enough? The next thing I know I've…
Acid Rain
Here it comes again. Pouring down corroding my every sense of sanity and reality. Threatening to brake me and bring me back to the torment that is this disease. It's been years, since writing, since fighting, since then becoming the power of positivity, love and light. Feeling now like a sham, a ...
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha
What Could Contain Them
This is a post I wrote for my fb today...with many thanks to my dear friend, L., for his assistance in helping me to flesh it out in early forms.... Today, as I sit here with the first belated blush of spring, I am feeling reflective. Fourteen years ago today, I nearly didn't make…
Mental Health Circle
This is what I have in my basket: Diagnosed at 30 with mild depression after years of thinking I needed to "just snap out of it". Yes I was told that to my face. Still trying to resolve suspected sexual abuse by my brothers and possibly my father. Only vague memories of it. They did…