Loneliness is a feeling that most people experience at some point in their lives. In the year of 2000, a solid 25 percent of people were living alone in the United States (Olds & Schwartz, 2009). Although I am unsure about the actual percentage of people living alone in 2018, I must admit that I [...]
Panic - Jacob Greb bad day 106 out of the 200 since january first. i know because like an idiot i track it. three short breaths and i cannot catch any air. am i even breathing? is the air at all entering my chest? i lean forward and take one long inhale. a bit of [...]
Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Those three words changed the course of my life forever. Now, I know that I have always been a bit "different" in respects to my peers. No other students double and triple checked about the due date of an assignment. They didn't go into an anxious panic because the plan was changed. [...]
Anxiety: by Hunter Proulx Something feels wrong I feel like I am about to drown Drown in my own worries and sorrows that I cannot express My hands shake and my head is spinning My patience is now thinning I cannot go on any longer this way I sit and I pray I pray for [...]
Almost twenty-five years ago, my first diagnosis was given to me. I was an angsty teen angry and sad because my family had moved from the only home I knew, from the only state I knew. I left the city where I would fall asleep many nights to cars backfiring or gunshots for suburbia of [...]
Body, Crescent It is out of compulsion that I pinch my skin - my nails slowly digging into the brown, leaving crescent dents onto my arms and back. These scars, these stories, written in gory all over my body I can see them trying to talk to each other like letters written in a book [...]
Art has an underlying sense of urgency. As an artist, you only have one lifetime to get as much out of your head and onto paper as possible. Unless you are one of a select few that can devote most of their day to creating art, you most likely have limits to your creative time [...]
Help me understand why only the negative side of those individuals with a mental health disorder is seen. It’s not our fault. Yet we’re being discriminated against who we are, and some of us even punished. We are not crazy. We deserve better treatment than what’s been given to us. Society claims that too much [...]
I felt the heaviness lift, and I stepped into my own skin. As time went by, the feeling began to grow, one of despair, sadness, and hopelessness. I couldn’t understand why, as I had dropped the coat at the door with all its distastefulness. As I looked down I saw a single thread that [...]
I’m currently 43. My children are now 26, 18, 16, and 10. I didn’t receive my diagnosis of major depressive disorder until I was 41; therefore, I also received no treatment until that point. I had no idea that I had been suffering from a medical condition for years. I thought I was just pretty [...]
