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 …
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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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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 …
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 …
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