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
028. Taking the plunge
At the request of my husband, my sister, my friends, some of my coworkers, and even an old family friend from my childhood, I have started therapy again. Therapy has been one of the best things in my life to turn it around. It's also super anxiety-inducing for me to meet a new therapist. I'm…
Comfortably Familiar
Another day. Lately every day is simply that. Another day. They continue. Over and over in this chaotic world. My anxiety has been awful. Miserable. Thank god for sleep. I live for sleep. Really, thank God for meds. Am I depressed orrrr are the meds working THAT good? Probably a mixture of both. ...
⚠️ warning!!!Disturbing images.
These are images of my self destruction first image was of me contemplating cutting myself superficial cuts cuz i was down and not thinking clearly. 2nd picture was taken about an hour later as I impulsively cut myself too deep for comfort. Third pic was taken while I was on the phone after cal...
An Open Ended Life
I'm a runner. It's what I have always done. I'm trying to break the habit, and have made considerable baby steps, but it still remains my first instinct when faced with conflict. It's got to be stopped. If I was a meme, it'd be a photo of me, with captions above it that read: "If…
ED REVISITING
So, it’s been a long time since I’ve have thoughts relating to my eating disorder. Just recently I’ve hated looking at myself and I have gained too much weight since isolation because of covid. I don’t like my body and how I look. It makes me feel very uncomfortable. I’ve been reading back on my&...
The version of good I wanted to be
I haven't written my thoughts down in years. It's probably time to start again. Yesterday I finally heard the words I've been longing for, and also dreading. "You should seek medication for ADHD". I was pretty certain it was coming. All signs pointed to it. I had braced myself, prepared myself. I...
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…