TO many of my readers, it seems that my blog was primarily started as a mental health blog. While it has definitely become that over the past couple of years, it didn't start out that way. I had never even actually known about blogging until I was required to make one for one of my …
Category: Archive
This category houses all of the old posts I made before this became a horror blog. While they are not inherently scary, readers can see why I love literature so much, as well as where I draw inspiration: from my own personal experiences.
Giving Tough Love to a Close Friend (And the Consequences Thereof)
I have a friend that recently attempted suicide. This was as a result of numerous things coming to a head after years of depression and unhappiness. As soon as she told me that she was in the hospital for ingesting over 30 pills, I got out of bed, got dressed, and went to sit with …
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Training my Dog!
In about 18 days, it will be a year since I adopted my sweet dog, Remy. He has been beyond a blessing in my life, as he has brought me much joy in my darkest times. He is honestly one of the most hyper, fun-loving guys out there, which brings me to the reason for …
My Life a Year Later
As I have made apparent on this blog, I went through one of the roughest times in my life about a year ago. On this day one full year ago, I was hospitalized for anxiety, panic attacks, and major depression. And while I still think about that time every single day, I felt that this …
Express Yourself
As I have been working at the writing center at my university for more than two years now, I have come to realize a few things. The biggest thing is that I have never read an essay or paper that is something I would call "bad". I have read so many works and talked …
Family, Friends, and Mental Health
As a kind of continuation from my last blog post, I want to talk a bit more about how the depressive episode I had recently affects my relationships. With my friends, things are better than they have ever been. I have learned to be completely open with them because I fully intend to keep my …
The Pain of Major Depression
Everyone talks about how hard it is to deal with a mental illness. I am just writing to share a recent experience that I have had that has affected me greatly. I was recently diagnosed with major depression. I was going to school full time, working about 20 hours a week, trying to balance a …
Importance of Multimodality
I would just like to take a moment to talk about how much I feel that multimodality is important in terms of rhetoric. I cannot stress how much I like being able to express myself in a variety of ways. As I have said numerous times, I love to make all kinds of art, from …
Facebook as a Means of Identification
Facebook has long been a way for people to connect and interact with each other. It has been, for years now, a way for them to build their own self-identification. It allows people to share, like, and talk about anything that interests them; there are countless pages for seemingly every interest that a person could …
What is Rhetoric?
"'But the more strident our journalists, politicians, and alas! even many of our churchmen become, the more convinced we are that books should be written for tolerance and contemplation...' I feel like this quote does a great deal of encompassing the one aspect of Burke's writing that I actually grasped onto: the idea that rhetoric is not just …
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