This post is a part of Nicole Carman’s mental health-related holiday post series, “Taking Care of your Mental Health during the Holiday Season.” To see the post line-up for the previous and remaining posts in this series, please visit “https://www.navigatingdarkness.com/taking-care-of-your-mental-health-during-the-holiday-season …” this page on Nicole’s blog, Navigating Darkness. If you enjoy this post, please comment and […]
Hey everyone! So if you are either new to my blog or have been referred to this post by Amy, welcome and I will introduce myself. My name is Sam and I have bipolar and PTSD from a traumatic 3 years in school as a pre-teen. I also in a not-so-unrelated sense am on the […]
I will not let my depression destroy me I will not put myself down I will not conform to society’s standards and expectations I will not mask for fake love I will not be ashamed of my life so far I will not blame myself for my life so far I will not seek approval […]
About a week and a half ago, I finally handed over the completed applications at the Social Security Office for my disability benefits. I feel no shame. It will be a long time before I find out if my information qualifies according to them, but I am glad I finally gave them the papers and […]
So here goes… If you recall my post from a week ago called something like “Most Personal And Revealing Post So Far”, I mentioned how the March For Our Lives played a huge role in my inner peace starting to fight off my depression for lack of a better phrase…kinda tired right now. Anyway, there […]
The last few months have been scary beyond belief. I have always had ups and downs with my mood going from very upbeat to an extreme feeling of despair or anger. But I have always managed to only have this happen when things get really bad. But lately this is far more frequent and it […]
