coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
The Mind of a House Wife With a Child
Most people think being a young stay at home mother is easy. I mean, I try to make it out to be easy, but to me, being home all the time with a one year old at the age of Twenty-One is the most miserable thing in the world. Outside of battling postpartum depression, I am watching my life go by while everyone else my age is making career accomplishments, or having the best college experience they can have, or maybe even having one Hell of an epic romance.
By Destiny Wooldridge6 years ago in Psyche
Today I Cried in the Shower
Take a deep breath so you don’t lose control, I coached myself as I finished the last of, enough dishes for a dinner party of eight or more. My hands were trembling, which in return made it difficult to hold the soap filled plates while scrubbing away food grease. My husband quickly paced from the living room, down the hall and back, out through the sunroom then repeat.
By Jade Hiltner6 years ago in Psyche
Love in the time of Corona Virus
One Friday night in the middle of March, while driving for Lyft in San Francisco, I started coughing. My chest hurt and I felt like I almost couldn't catch my breath. I called the advice nurse who scheduled a call with a doctor the next morning. I was beside myself. Was it Covid-19? Was I going to die? As a lifelong Asthmatic, I couldn't seem to keep myself from going to the most catastrophic scenario. And what about my passengers? Best case scenario, I'd only had it for 2 days, thus potentially infecting at least 40 people. Worst case, I'd had it for 2 weeks, and infected 200+ people.
By R. E. Dacted6 years ago in Psyche
How cooking takes a bite out of my depression
For me, cooking is, and always will be, a joyous experience. I cook everyday, not just because I want to, but because I need to. It’s a ritual much like a form of meditation, there are steps I need to take in order to get into the right state, concentrating on time and temperature to keep the front of the mind focused, so you can truly discover the wonders of flavour. Ok the ‘wonders of flavour’ part sounds a bit daft, but seriously, my relationship with dealing with depression runs rather more deeply. You see it’s easy to say bake a cake and you’ll feel better, but really concentrating on the why, reflecting on your feelings, however positive or negative are all good practices in order to improve your ability to curb the effects of depression.
By Chris Perry6 years ago in Psyche
Abandonment Issues and COVID-19
One of the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder that I struggle with the most are feelings of abandonment. These feelings have mainly been connected to people in my personal life when I feel that they are drifting, leaving, or neglecting me. But something happened recently that completely knocked me off of my feet, and it was completely unexpected.
By Ashley Nestler, MSW6 years ago in Psyche
Understanding Trauma Triggers
I feel so powerless right now. “To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty, there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.” -Tara Westover
By Surviving Childhood Trauma6 years ago in Psyche
I Thought I Knew
IDENTIFYING WITH MY CHILDHOOD I didn’t know much until now. I found myself in a world of self discovery far beyond the textbook definition that I had expectations of. Unfair expectations that when I became a woman someday I would be stable, all knowing like my parents. But I’ve come to figure out what every adult in the world has had a taste of and that’s that my parents are not made out of iron. If you’ve already come to this discovery, you’re probably thinking, “welcome to the club,” but I’m just shell shocked.
By McKy Sillitoe6 years ago in Psyche
hearing the birdsong in the storm
I once read about a young girl who told her parents she needed to go to a doctor because she heard what she thought to be an unsettling voice in her head. She thought something was wrong and that all that noise couldn’t be normal. Turns out she was hearing her own thoughts and that it was simply her own brain that had felt foreign to her.
By Alice Bryant6 years ago in Psyche
i guess the word is crazy?
It’s crazy to exist in this moment. So much growth has come along in what is respectively a short amount of time, so much that I feel like I have aged decades beyond my years. That is a common fact, the work is tough, and the load is heavy to bare but well worth very cent to work through the tears. As it happens, when life is the balance that she is, something good must good for every something bad; with that logic, after a period of extreme hardship one must experience a moment of unadulterated bliss – in whatever form one defines that to be.
By M. A. Hetussa6 years ago in Psyche
