So yesterday I was approved for Social Security Disability benefits. Not because of physical illness. Strictly for my #mentalhealth This was the FIRST time I applied. No need for a lawyer. No nothing. Saying this was an incredibly pleasant surprise is an understatement. I didn’t tweet about this the minute I was approved bc I […]
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There is so much work to be done when it comes to ending the stigma. One of the reasons for this is that some people are very resistant to any kind of change regarding how we view mental health. While this may come across as generalizing, and maybe it is, there is indeed a huge […]
Depression makes me hate myself Depression makes me feel I don’t deserve love Depression makes me not accept compliments Depression makes me unable to recognize my strengths Depression makes me put others before myself Depression makes me lie to myself when I scream that I love myself. In even my own blog and videos. […]
(I am holding off on writing and posting the remaining chapters of my “My Traumatic Adolescence” series. It was really hard actually to write Parts 1 & 2 and those represented the less darker times during the period of my life the series focuses on. But they still brought up a lot of emotions. So […]
“Just saw a year-old episode of South Park earlier. It triggered me. It’s one addressing the national school shooting tragedies. What triggered me was how everyone was treating the one panicking mother as “overreacting” and “negative” like she’s supposed to see this as “normal” Every1 in said South Park episode dismissing the scared mother reminded […]
…My parents told me some familiar news toward the end of my amazing fourth grade year. That the landlord of the house was not selling the house, but kicking us out. Why? Because she doesn’t like kids. That was at least what I remember being told by my parents later. I wasn’t really devastated as […]
