Tag: Depression
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The Pandemic Is Stealing Joy From Our Children
More needs to be done to help families cope with the emotional effects on their children. -
Strange Medicine: Injected Mushrooms
Welcome to Strange Medicine—a series of nonfiction articles based on recent journal published, peer-reviewed case studies, review articles, meta-studies, scientific studies, and primary literature. Each relates to events that made the medical community’s eyes widen and scratch their heads, though, please note that all are significant toward scientific and medical progress because they also forced ... -
Chronic Pain & Me
Disclaimer: The following is a personal diary entry from January 2021 Over the last few weeks, I’ve felt as if my recent writing is lacking flavor. Over the last few months, any moments of creativity come in short bursts. I have been dealing with chronic pain and mental illness. I feel useless. Happiness is fleeting ... -
I Can’t. I’m SAD.
SAD is especially scary because I already fight anxiety and depression on a daily basis. Mix that with an extra boost of depression and you have a dangerous recipe on your hands. -
It Takes Courage
The world is still spinning, and we are often stuck in place as things happen around us. Right now, it is okay to feel overwhelmed. With the Christmas season approaching, there would be feelings of depression and anxiety for many people. This year it is going to be worse for even more. Those who have ... -
It Took Me 10 Years…
Trigger Warning- Domestic Violence It took me 10 years to fully get over you. Every blood-curdling scream from my throat over 3 years was a testament to the manipulation that you had subdued me to. It was 3 years of walking on eggshells and uneasiness and a semi-permanent lump in my throat and knot ... -
Patchwork Heart
The Patchwork Heart is my creative interpretation of what countless people must be feeling right now. I am going to share what I did to create it, as I feel it deserves a bit of an explanation. -
Shadow of A Doubt
Choices haunt me Offering no reprieve, No clear right and wrong Simply this or that Eating at the mind. Questioning the how and why Using guilt and even then, Even if, I choose right Never knowing the Critical what if, Ending up with the Shadow of doubt looming. -
Unfinished: A Poem
I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life Equating being busy to being successful. Multiple deadlines, overwhelming projects, With nothing but nervous energy to push them towards completion. Some projects do get finished, But only if they were created for someone else. Personal goals get shoved in a corner, To gather dust alongside abandoned ... -
