What I didn’t know was that I wasn’t a monster. I had one of the most common types of OCD. If I had known that my intrusive thoughts were normal it would have saved me 10+ years of misery.
How To Deal With a Backslide: Have you experienced an unexpected and severe backslide in your mental health journey? I certainly have. In fact, I just recently felt like I’d stepped five years backwards in my mental health journey. Long story short, trauma reared its ugly head in a very bad and unexpected way. In …
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Lately, I’ve been dealing with negative self talk. I mean, okay, I always deal with negative self talk, let’s be real. But during quarantine time it’s been really overwhelming. To the point where I’m seriously starting to worry myself. For example, I found myself *sobbing* uncontrollably on the way to our scenic mountain vacation. During …
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Have you ever overreacted? Like, have you ever been in a situation where emotions seem to take over? Where you reacted based on the way you felt in the moment rather than on logic? Of course! We all have! It’s part of being human! But what happens when your overreaction gauge seems to be stuck …
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We all know how important it is to eat properly. But did you know it’s also crucial to have a well balanced emotional diet too? You are what you eat, after all, and that goes for your mental state! Since I’m a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), I have to pay special attention to where my …
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For some of us, the pandemic has cut off our access to consistent mental health care and activities. We can’t do much about that but what we can do is try to take some of those activities and adapt them to work for us at home. Think of this as Mental Health Homework to keep …
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