depression

How NOT To Deal With Stress

  When you’re in a stressful situation, it’s important to find the right form of stress relief. Certain ways of dealing with stress can be unhealthy and are best avoided. This post lists some of the worst ways to deal with stress – and what you should do instead. Drinking alcohol/taking drugs Many people like

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Despair

I am tired but my mind will not rest. I can find no relief from this despair and anguish that I feel. I fear I am losing my mind to this insanity that is my body in its present state. This body that is not mine. This body that is possessed by raging heat and

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What Lies Beneath the Facade of Faces

We only see what we are shown but underneath there is a struggle, a battle that we don’t show to the world. Many of us have been taught through shame not to reveal our secrets, not to let people know our struggles for fear we will be judged as not good enough, not ‘normal’. Stigmatized by society as well as our own families not to reveal what is seen as weakness, illness, disease, less than, inadequate, or different.

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