Lessons from the World of Global Health for Our Mental and Emotional Well-Being
I want to emphasize here how much we can get from practicing self-care, peer-to-peer support, and community support on our own.
Topic: mental health month
I want to emphasize here how much we can get from practicing self-care, peer-to-peer support, and community support on our own.
May is Mental Health Month. These statements are true, they are non-negotiable, they are Black and White.
PPD is the tapeworm to a mother’s soul. It’s a gaslighting, devious, underhanded disorder that slinks its way into a mother’s heart and subconscious.
Turn on the news and you’ll find people with schizophrenia depicted as unhinged humans who kill, harm, and wreak havoc. That was most certainly not me.
Ever since I was introduced to alcohol it became about getting more. Always more.
I hold my breath and wait for what feels like the inevitable digression this discussion will now take, interspaced with worlds like manipulative, unstable, frequent flyer, untreatable.
Not everyone gets to bear witness to me. Not everyone gets to know my pain. And that’s okay.
We’re often seen as heroes, but we’re also human.
It’s hard to look back to those moments when I truly did not want to live. It’s difficult to admit you’ve had an honest desire to end your life.
The thing about getting clean is that once you get out of rehab, no one’s getting paid to take care of you anymore. That is when the real work starts.
I’m no stranger to suicidal ideation. I hate calling it that, because it sounds so much more intense than what I feel, which is a passive wish to no longer exist.
I’ve been solving riddles for years, it’s a big part of surviving bipolar disorder.
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