How And Why I Began to Study Psychology. So I'd Become Perfect Of Course!
By sixteen, I was desperate to understand, no, to predict what might cause a minor “hey, that’s a silly thing to do!” versus a full-blown fight. If I could predict it, I could prevent it from happening by being perfect. If I couldn’t predict it, and I got into trouble, I’d always feel shame. I felt it was my job to solve every emotional mystery. To have known better and been one step ahead. And anyone in my family being upset meant I failed at it.
Am I sure I have ADHD? How I remembered I was neurodivergent and learned Self-Compassion Again.
That’s it. No more just maybe figuring it out when it comes to living with myself. I can’t. And it’s ok BECAUSE I know I’m neurodivergent. I have ADHD. I honestly, truly, pretended so good that I don’t in front of others that I forgot for a moment. Or 2 Years. Or I just wanted to forget so that it would be easier. But it made is so, so, so much harder. Mxiety has ADHD and that’s how it is.
What The World Needs for Mental Health Advocacy Has Changed: A 6 Years Retrospective
This World Mental Health Day marks the 6 year anniversary of starting Mxiety as a blog with live streams dedicated to advocating for openness in mental health. Inevitably, this means nostalgia, introspection, and thoughts about the future have made home in my mind for the time being. Here they are laid out to make sense from
Asking for Validation to Cope With Feeling Like You're Not Doing Enough
You don’t have to wait for validation for your turn to feel. You can control how long you wait and how much you put up with while you do. Even if others need you. If you have not given to yourself, what you’re offering them is a husk of a person left after everyone else has already had their turn to pick your emotions dry.
Letter to Myself 10 Years from Now. Mxiety 2031
10 years from now it will be June 16, 2031 (HOLY SH) and I will be 40 years old (ALSO HOLY SH) which is silly a thing to write since you already know what date and year it is, I should just get to the all the good stuff and questions and reminders I have for you. I know you’re gonna cry too, so I hope you grabbed tissues.
5 Qualities That Help Me As a Twitch Streamer (That I Used to Hate About Myself)
And it’s not like there is one brand of streamer. In fact, that is my point. Were you made fun of for being too quiet as a kid? Maybe you would make a stellar ASMR streamer! Were you great at identifying birds? Well, you can be an amazing ornithologist now with other people like you watching live as you go find cool rare birds. As long as your behavior doesn’t hurt others, being yourself is freakin’ awesome.
15 Things I Was Told I HAD To Accomplish Before 30 ... And 15 I Actually Did
Life is full of expectations. And I think, for the longest time, I didn’t realize that many of them were not mine. As I am turning 30, I reflect on what I have accomplished so far, and naturally, beat myself up for what I haven’t. That is, until I realized that the expectations that were lacking were not things I ever wanted for myself to begin with.
Guest Post: Why Paris Gramann Wanted To Raise Mental Health Awareness
Since I had been a kid, I always had a fairly easy time sticking up for other people. If someone was getting made fun of, I would gently speak up that the comment or verbal “poking fun” was hurtful.
Why Does Social Media Upset Us And What Can We Do?
If I am feeling ok, I don’t mind seeing prettier-than-life things, in fact, I often feel they inspire me. However, if I am a bit down on myself, the fire gets worse from the added coal of upward comparison. Is that anyone else’s fault? Not exactly. I compare myself enough to people in real life, that confronting more things I am bad at online becomes downright exhausting.
How I Stopped Comparing Myself To Others and Decided I Was Good Enough
So what actions did I take? First, I set up some long-term goals. These were loose and a bit broad like a bucket list for the rest of my life.
Recovering from Mental Illness: It’s possible, but not what you expect it to be
The difference between me accepting my issues in the past versus now is just patience. Every time my mental well being makes a turn for the best, I get to reset my rejoicing, as much as I return to feeling hopeless when I am emotionally attacking myself for what feels like the 1000th time.
The Reality of Loving Someone Who Has Depression (or another Mental Illness)
Actually. There is no third person narration. There is no romance in suffering, even if it is together. But boy, isn’t it a pretty snapshot from my life. Two real people met as they were dealing with personal internal pain and without promising to fix each other, they helped each other through it.
Excuses Or Explanations: How I Feel About My New Diagnosis
Knowing what’s brewing inside your brain might not change much of your day-to-day, but it can certainly put you at ease from the fear that you are an other – too different to be helped, too odd to ever live a normal life. It shouldn’t be what defines you, but in a world of labels, it’s much more powerful to affix one upon yourself than to have to fight against anything someone might assume upon you.
A Disney Princess Inspired Me To Leave My Abusive Family
I remember at that moment thinking: “That’s so unkind.” Followed by an epiphany as I considered how I wasn’t allowed to go to a college four hours away because I “wouldn’t make it there.” Or how after looking at me for a minute I was once asked: “I don’t know how you’ll get anyone to love you if you keep gaining weight and have acne.”
Science Reminds Me I Am Small But I Need to ‘Think Big’
Beating depressive thoughts with perspective
How Accepting My Mental Illness Changed My Life
So now, you tell me. Was ignorance bliss or was awareness my savior? Was my diagnosis my crutch or my comfort and explanation? Should you continue sleeping through the nightmare because you just want some rest, or should you violently wake yourself up and go through the painful process of dealing with things?