advice
Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.
Creative flow
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you want to make it through this life with your chin up, own your fucking self. Be who you are supposed to be. Let go of what anybody else is telling you to do, and just live your life for yourself. I don’t care who you are or where you come from or what you look like, if you lead with a good intentioned heart and do good for yourself and treat others with respect and you’re doing what feels right for you and you alone...you WILL flow into the next life with a sense of fulfillment. Because that’s the point of life. It’s going on your own journey. It’s fucking up along the way while you figure out who you are, and what you want out of life. There is no beauty without ugly. And there is such beauty in the ugly. Life is not meant to be lived working 40+ hours a week with hardly any time to do the things you’re really passionate about that make you happy or not having the time for your family and friends. Life is not all about money. Money is easy to get. This year taught me a lot of truly valuable lessons that caused me an ungodly amount of pain. And that’s okay. There is no pleasure without pain. Forgive yourself for making mistakes. Forgive yourself for acting like someone who is not who you are. Forgive yourself for lying. For faking. For being an asshole. It’s not weak to cry. It’s not weak to break. And you know why you should forgive yourself? Because no matter what, you create the life you live. And there is always light in the dark if you’re willing to look for it. For all my people who struggle with mental health? You’re my people because I understand. I understand being afraid of appearing weak because all you want to do is cry or sleep. I understand what not eating feels like. I understand what not sleeping feels like. I understand what it feels like to not give a fuck about your appearance. I understand what it’s like not feeling comfortable within your body. I know what it feels like to be abandoned by those you love. I know what it feels like to want to just end it. I know what it’s like to be afraid of being put in a glass box in clothes that aren’t your own (psych wards), surrounded by people who think you’re suffering from a disease and want to put a label on you and shove pills down your throat. I also know what it feels like to be my own light in a dark world. It takes courage, strength, and an iron willpower. If you’re feeling lost, look up at the stars and make your inner light shine just as bright. Be kind. Be compassionate. Dance. Sing until you run out of breath. Paint. Draw. Play games. We don’t need clubs and bars to have fun. You can prance down a sidewalk just fine jamming out like the fiery spirit everybody has in them. Take ALL the pictures. Fucking laugh til you cry. Roll with all of the punches and get the fuck back up. You are strong. You are worthy. And I don’t care what you’ve done up to this point, just forgive yourself, learn from lessons no matter how many times you have to make the same one, and do better every day. Know that you’re not alone. You can be the most beautiful person on the outside looking like they got their shit together, and be a completely broken person on the inside without anyone knowing. You. Are. Not. Alone. There are people, like myself, who would be very willing to listen if you needed someone to just simply talk to who isn’t going to judge you or make you do things that arent in alignment with yourself or make you feel afraid to be yourself. There is only one you and you are uniquely yourself and you should be proud of that. Everything is always working for you. You just have to believe in yourself.
By Rachel willette 5 years ago in Psyche
Mental Health
Now this is a very touchy subject so I’m just going to tell it how I see it, how it makes me feel. Everyone has their own opinions, and some people feel like it shouldn’t be talked about because how can you really tell when some one is actually suffering or just using it as an excuse. Now obviously if this does offend people I apologise, I am not trying to offend but everyone has their own views.
By collette_235 years ago in Psyche
You Can’t Make The Narcissist in Your Life Change
There have been an almost endless supply of articles discussing narcissists in the news and popular press recently. It’s what they call a hot topic and a lot of people (myself included) are weighing in on the subject.
By Natalie Frank, Ph.D5 years ago in Psyche
Living With ADD/ADHD
In short, no. But then again, living with any sort of a disability, mental or physical, isn't easy, regardless of what anybody thinks or says. But I'm not here to talk about any of those, My fight is with ADD/ADHD. Let me explain something. Living with ADD/ADHD, myself and others like me, constantly fight with ourselves to stay focused, dealing with mental exhaustion and hyperactivity, and thinking about a million things and nothing all at the same time, trying to do all this with or without medication. Medication makes it manageable but by no means easy. Without medication, it's even worse. On top of learning how to change and adapt to our ever-changing world, you have to learn and adapt to your ever-changing mind. Eventually, you learn how to manage things without the medication but you will never have a handle on it. At least this is what is happening to me. Confused? Well, keep reading and I'll explain.
By Ruka Gilbert5 years ago in Psyche
Diagnosis: Narcissism
Why is does the word and the immense definition behind it seem so new? It has crept ever so slowly into society as a diagnosis, a subject for motivational plaques and the new & modernized label for a control freak. I found myself reading those inspirational quotes regarding persons who are in relationships with a narcissis, and by golly it’s as if these people knew me and boy did they know a lot about my husband! Suddenly I was angry because I had been left out of the loop! Why was I just learning about these most unfavorable traits? And that there was a label for these traits? I had spent 18 years in a relationship, 12 of them legally married, and I shared 2 children with a textbook narcissist!
By Michele Cummings-Ashurst5 years ago in Psyche
