Category: Anxiety/Depression
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Please Don’t Tell Me How To Feel When My Pain Flares Up
When I sit down and write to advocate for my illnesses, I feel this pressure that I always need to be positive. That if I’m not, that if I’m not seeing the positive in the things I’m still able to do, that well, I’m just not grateful or positive enough. That is the power of […]
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Study Links Social Anxiety to Empathy and Intelligence
Social anxiety is a daily struggle. As human beings, we have a deep need for personal connection. Social anxiety strongly inhibits this. Its presence can cause even small tasks to become truly challenging. Many of us turn to spirituality as a coping mechanism, but even here we often find disapproval. Certain studies have suggested that […]
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Anxiety Disorders Could Be Caused By Being Exposed To Narcissistic Abuse
People Who Believe In The Good Nature Of Others, Are Highly Sensitive Or Emotionally Intelligent, Are The Most Common Targets For Narcissistic Abuse. Residing where any kind of emotional or mental abuse takes place is going to affect your health. Not only that, but the way you see yourself, and how much worth you believe […]
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The Vicious Cycle of Anxiety and Emetophobia
I never knew mental illness could wreak havoc on my physical health. It’s called a “mental” illness after all. No one and nothing could have prepared me for the heart palpitations, the raging migraines, the dizzy spells, the night-long battles with nausea and chills and waking up in a puddle of sweat. In my particular […]
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Highly Sensitive People, Remember These 10 Things When You Feel Anxious
We’ve all felt anxious at some point in our lives. Anxiety is that jittery feeling you get before something big happens, like a first date, a job interview or moving to a new house. Your palms sweat, your heart beats fast and you feel like there’s a ball of lead in your gut. But then, you might […]
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Anxiety Disorders typically caused by exposure to Narcissistic Abuse
Overt abuse techniques commonly used on preferred scapegoat targets by Cluster B people tend to cause physical health issues for victims of people who are socially aggressive, violent, and foster a complex atmosphere of Ambient Abuse in any social environment they have the opportunity to influence. The most common targets for social abuse are highly sensitive and emotionally intelligent people […]
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7 Signs That Your Relationship Is Plagued By Depression
The term “depression” shouldn’t be taken lightly. A lot of people are being forced to keep with mental illnesses even though they can be perfectly unaware of it. And when left unchecked or untreated, a mental illness like depression can potentially be threatening to a person’s life and relationships. There is no doubt that if […]
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When You’re in the Gray Area of Being Suicidal
To Whom It May Concern: I’m suicidal. And no, it’s not what you think. I am safe. I am not harming myself. I do not have a plan, and I do not plan on doing anything. But I’m suicidal. And I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t. People think of things like suicide in such black […]
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When Anxiety and Depression Makes You Believe You’re Broken
I’ve always had a perfectionist mindset. I had thoughts constantly appear, saying I had to be the best. I had to get good grades. I had to do well in sports, and clubs, and everything. This mindset grew and shifted. Now, it says I can’t be flawed. I can’t fail. I can’t make mistakes. I […]
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Please Stop ‘Pill Shaming’ People With Anxiety and Depression
Editor’s note: Please see a doctor before starting or stopping a medication. After almost three years of being diagnosed with anxiety and depression, I recently found out that I have bipolar disorder. Taking these six pills daily is what keeps me afloat. I’m writing this in the hope that it will help just one person feel confident […]