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Borderline Personality Disorder
When I found out that I had Borderline Personality Disorder, it was like everything finally made sense. My doctor handed me a book to skim through and I started laughing at how textbook I was. It felt like they wrote a book on my life—I no longer felt alone or, for that matter, unique. After I found out, I went home and read as many articles and books on the disorder as I could get (for free online obviously).
By Cat Dempsey8 years ago in Psyche
How My Claircognizance Makes Me Crazy . Top Story - January 2018.
Claircognizance is defined as “clear knowing,” which I have in abundance. It is a sixth sense, which is helping my five physical senses of sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. I have normal senses and I have metaphysical senses. When something randomly pops into my head, like a Scrabble word when I’m playing, this is using my claircognizance. When I suddenly know something about what mental health diagnosis a person has, this is also my claircognizance. There are many ways I access this faculty. Claircognizance is something that can get me the right answer in class as well, often when it filters through from trance channeling the reading material.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Psyche
What the Teddy Bear Saw
I remember the day I arrived at her house. She was excited, more excited than most people her age are to receive a bear that they bought themselves. Apparently I was a member of a certain brand she collected, and I felt lucky to have found such a happy, loving home.
By Catherine Butler8 years ago in Psyche
PTSD Survivor
I am sitting in my cold chair in my American government class like I have every day since school started. The class is reading current events on CNN. The headline reads, "Seattle Mayor resigns for sexual abuse allegations." As I continue to read the summary, I slowly sink down into my chair, barely able breathe, unable to talk. This is not an unfamiliar feeling; I am a PTSD survivor.
By Lonely Woman8 years ago in Psyche
Management Out of Destruction
A tiny bit of background, as a young woman, who has suffered many of a ‘series of unfortunate events,’ one of the most prominent handfuls of difficulties I have developed over the last five years is OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) arising from the roots of BDD (body dysmorphia). This comes in many, many forms for myself, through thoughts, actions and general rituals/routines I feel I have to perform.
By Karla Pitt8 years ago in Psyche
What It Is Like to Drink and Be Aware
As a gifted, and aware person, I drank to quell the talent and the noise. My talents are numerous. It is hard to be inside my own head sometimes. Alcohol served as self-medication for me. I gave it up. I quit drinking, period. It was a buffer. I was on meds by 20 but I still drank. I built up a tolerance. I had a high tolerance. I mean I could pound two Guinness beers and not feel much of a buzz. In college, I spent my life drinking until when I graduated in 2007. My symptoms were still something that got me picked on a lot. Now that I’m treated, I’m hardly picked on. Sure, I’ve figured out people bully only when your symptoms show.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Psyche
Healing After Heartbreak
It’s been truly identified as one if the worst things to endure in a lifetime. Heartbreak is the outcome of many events in our lives, but no matter how many times we may experience it, a broken heart never hurts any less. It’s that soul crushing blow to the soul that leaves us in total loss and despair, something I myself am dealing with currently. I wanted to share some of my own personal tips and methods of recovering, in the hopes that I may help a fellow sufferer. Before any of that, I decided to be brave enough to share the truth and reality of the affects of a broken heart, most recently on myself.
By Jessica Murray8 years ago in Psyche
It’s Not Just a Feeling
Too often we are told that if we say we are depressed, people tell us to “get happy.” Like it’s something you can just go out and do. People don’t understand what they don’t want to. There was a family, a big family. From the outside looking in, everything seemed perfect. The parents wanted it that way. Towards the end of their baker's dozen, there was one who felt out of place, like she didn’t belong. Everyone was so good at everything, and she was ok being her.
By Heidi Sunshine8 years ago in Psyche
