Posts tagged "mental health"
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My bullet journal isn't a mental health cure. But...
Published: 2025-08-13
Journalling can be fun and enjoyable if you let it be. It doesn't have to be a boring chore.
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ReadSeverance and Dissociation
Published: 2025-07-13
I just finished the 7th episode of season two of Severance. Oh my gosh I have so many thoughts I need to get out into text form. This is going to contain a lot of spoilers for the show. If you haven’t watched, you should close this browser tab. And then go binge the entire show. Anyway. In this episode, we get caught up with Gemma, Mark’s “late” wife who we find out isn’t actually all that dead. We knew that she worked on the severed floor as her severed identity, Ms Casey, and we knew she was
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Whoops! Let’s try this again.
Published: 2024-03-28
Having finally seen a psychiatrist this week to look into my serious mental health symptoms, I’ve finally been given a diagnosis and treatment plan—I have Complex PTSD, which is honestly what I began to realise I had already. But it’s definitely a big jump from thinking you have something, to a trained professional telling you that, yes, your brain is really that fucked up. In Safe Mode, I explained how this affects how I interact with the world every day. Emotions feel too intense to the point
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The existential fear of rejection
Published: 2023-08-21
I signed up for my second round of therapy with the goal of managing and breaking out of a depressive spiral. In the first appointment, my therapist predicted that my depression is powered by anxiety alone, and by tackling that, it would lead to much better management of my depression. The next session she made a conjecture that my anxiety was built on the fear of rejection and abandonment. So er, turns out she was right. On both counts. Working through feelings and my behavioural patterns and
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Surviving
Published: 2023-07-04
Content warning for strong depression themes, mentions of suicide It wasn’t until the last couple of weeks, that I was fully able to comprehend that just getting through life makes you a survivor. I’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety for years and years, and it came to a head earlier in 2023. I’ve missed so much time with my friends, at work, and with my hobbies over the last couple of months especially. Last week, I began the third attempt at finding a medicine that works to allev
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on my mind
Published: 2023-06-12
This is a follow up to the post I wrote a few weeks ago (Committing To A Better Me). Content warnings for depression themes and mentions of suicide. About five weeks ago, I finally reached out to my doctor about my symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. They gave me a referral to a therapist, nearly two months off work, and a prescription for an anti depressant, sertraline. The next couple of weeks were extremely tough as I was dealing with both my own breakdown and adjusting t
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