Anxiety, depression and all
Cal in Color
I wondered how the call with my parents, who quietly offer more support than I could ask for, caused more stress than calls from UHS and friends combined.
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Why therapy is better than ever in the digital age
Even if you’ve never gone to therapy or dislike the concept based on prior experiences, now’s the time to test the waters.
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Why everyone should prioritize mental health, work to end the stigma
We all must understand that feelings of anxiety and depression are not a choice. Often, they require a medical diagnosis.
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Life is better beyond your stigma
To me, taking antidepressants felt like cheating. It felt like taking the easy way out. I wanted to make myself happy through my own willpower.
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Fostering happiness
Off the Beat
I can honestly say, however, that my biggest lifesavers were a set of three helpless foster kittens.
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Breaking up with my psychiatrist
I have never dealt well with change. My usual response to change is to curl into a ball and cease to function until I finally get used to my new reality.
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Time loss
Bear in Mind
My bed and I have a complicated, toxic love-hate relationship. Mental illness is exhausting and causes me to sleep a lot.
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From depression to addiction: dispelling mental health myths and mysteries
If mental illness has ever touched your life in a serious way as it has touched mine, you know that most of society’s perceptions and discussions about mental illness are less than ideal.
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How to throw words into the face of depression
I always wonder what people bustling around me think of the erratic snippets they catch of my daily phone conversations with my mother as I walk through Sproul Plaza.
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It doesn’t get better (and then, it does)
Bear in Mind
I have received a plentitude of terrible advice in my time as a Chronically Mentally Ill Person. One of my favorite (not at all appreciated) pieces of advice (that is not at all advice) is “It gets better!”
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