coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
TRAUMA: The Diaries
I have been trying to cope broken-hearted for a long time. I tried every coping mechanism I was taught through psychology classes and by my therapists over the years. I tried to go through all five stages of grief, yet this heavy pain refuses to let me go. I was able to accept it, to understand it, and to move on without it. But after it all, the memories are still hunting me. They still remind me of what I have lost every time I try to sleep. I spent hours thinking it over; dissecting every one of them. Trying to find the reasons why. The moment when I started losing her. In the end, the answers to all my wonders remained unexplained and I needed to find a way to move on. To move on without closure.
By Jean-Patrick Roy5 years ago in Psyche
All Alone in the World
The Orphan is an enigma. As the representative of a kind of numinous loneliness, the orphan is both special and outcast. There is a holiness to her exiled state and once redeemed, representative of the true embodiment of the Self. The Orphan archetype is of great significance to the work of C.G. Jung and archetypal psychology and its appearance marks an important moment on the road to the individuated Self which can be symbolised through the “numinous character of the child”.
By Delaney Jane5 years ago in Psyche
These Video Games Can Actually Cure Your Anxiety, Here's How
There are certain things that society scapegoats to justify certain issues that are wrong with the world. Many decades ago rock music and heavy metal were blamed for making young people violent, then it was action movies that brainwashed teenagers.
By Mindsmatter.5 years ago in Psyche
Pure Imagination
What better way is there to explain what writing means to me than to enter a writing contest? The voices in my head would have me believe there's a million better ways, a million different ways, to describe it but I struggle to shut them out. Before you ask, no these aren't actual voices. Well, I suppose they are to me but not in the sense of 'I'm crazy and the voices tell me to do things' that such a statement tends to bring to mind. Okay, they do tell me to do things but isn't that what part of being a writer is? Having all these voices in your head and knowing that you aren't crazy?
By Heather Miller5 years ago in Psyche
Dancing Through The Tears
Over the course of our lives, we may find ourselves experiencing instances of grief. This can be the result of many different events or situations. For example, you may grieve the end of your time at school/college/university, you/your parents getting divorced, the death of somebody you love, and so on, and so forth…
By Outrageous Optimism 5 years ago in Psyche
Ball of Yarn Mind
Have you seen those cartoons that depict a chaotic mind with squiggly lines? Almost like a ball of yarn has completely unravelled and knotted itself inside your mind, and no matter how much you detangle it, there is no clearing the mess that has been made. I often live like this, with a ball of yarn that I can never tidy. I always thought I was stupid, and aloof, just a 'dumb blonde' as friends and colleagues often referred to me as. I knew I was smart but forgetful, and forgetfulness is the seed of stupidity. Throughout my whole life I was always aware that something wasn't quite right with me, but I never thought something was wrong with me and there's a big difference between not quite right, and wrong. Managing that ball of yarn has never been an easy task but sometimes I would forget about it. Whether I was dancing, or playing piano, painting or singing, sometimes that ball of yarn rolled itself up into a more manageable size, and tucked itself into a corner of my mind.
By Beth Hughes5 years ago in Psyche
4 Ways to Stay Grounded in Recovery During a Pandemic Resurgence
As if a year of social distancing, work from home, and travel concerns wasn't enough, a new and more transmissible (and potentially more dangerous) variant of COVID-19 is striking concern among public health officials. According to a Denver news channel, the number of delta variant COVID-19 cases is expected to double every two weeks.
By Hailey Parks5 years ago in Psyche
Unfinished
At age five, I told my mother I wanted to die. When I was taken to a psychiatrist I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and an anxiety disorder along with ASD. For me, emotion is a tempest, the kind that thrashes at the inside of my mind like a creature that wants to escape. In truly terrible moments, it fizzes under my skin like an itch I can’t scratch away. Sometimes all I want to do is scream. Loudly. Until I can’t scream anymore.
By Emily Wagner 5 years ago in Psyche
One
THE REFORMER: Rational and Idealistic. Principled, purposeful - self-controlled and perfectionist. I wanted to change the world. Change? Perhaps reform is the better word. This precious earth that we all inhabit, learn, and grow in; I wanted to somehow reform it completely into an immaculate Eden. A treasured elysian. It wouldn’t be easy. No, never easy. But still, I believed. I would bring together the greatest minds, the greatest leaders, the greatest contributors; and create a world from the purest of ideals. I wanted to breathe life into the philosophies from the great sages of old. Socrates, Confucius, Einstein, Galileo, De Vinci, all of them. Surely, at least one of them must have seen the world in the way I did. They must have seen all the things we could accomplish together. No, I am not necessarily saying that I am seeking for recognition or God’s favor. Well, perhaps I am. Perhaps I believe that you and me together could bring to pass the greatest theophany there is. Either way, I just want to prove that every imperfection could be a lie.
By Kaitlin Christensen5 years ago in Psyche
'back to the future' letter #notetoselfafterlockdown
Backstory... Below is an entry I wrote as a mini time capsule diary a few weeks after the news of the pandemic in 2020. One year and a bit later, I am cleaning up my Google Drive and opened this document.
By 🇻🇳 Journey with Juju 🇦🇺5 years ago in Psyche
