From my own experience, I know that depression and anxiety can be downright tiring. Oftentimes you might just want to stay at home or curled up in bed in order to avoid potentially distressing situations. Your energy and motivation might be low and the day feels utterly hopeless. Because of this, doing anything to make yourself feel better or get some relief from the … [Read more...]
Your Scars Don’t Define You: One Parent’s Story of Supporting Their Teen with Self-Injury
As we battled these last weeks through a particularly rough patch, I found myself thinking that it was time for me to revisit therapy again. Sometimes the skills fade or get sloppy, sometimes I forget to take care of myself, sometimes I just crave an outsider’s voice on our challenges. My family often struggles during the transition time from school to summer and summer to … [Read more...]
My Struggle with Depression, Anxiety, Substance Abuse and Family Alcoholism.
I am a self-proclaimed, and semi-medically diagnosed, martyr and self-destructive masochist with a true medical diagnosis of depression and anxiety. I have spent the longest portion of my life within a destructive mindset and unwarranted ideas of being unworthy or undeserving of goodness. Now I realize that even as I write this these problems still persist. The difference is … [Read more...]
3 Ways You Are Stronger Than You Think
Someone today will need to hear this. Is that you? Overcoming challenging emotional feelings and persistent negative thoughts is hard. But it's not impossible. You are capable of empathy and compassion. Your ability to help another human in need despite all that may be happening in your own life is a testament to your ability to relate to and empathize with others. The … [Read more...]
Acceptance
Accepting that you may have or even do have a mental illness is, in my opinion, one of the hardest things about the illness itself. On the outside, I come across as this girl that has everything together. To my friends, I’m this goofy, funny (or at least I think I am), super outgoing, and happy girl. To my parents, I am involved in everything, smart, have a lot of friends, … [Read more...]
How To Stop Social Anxiety At School
Hi, everyone! Anxiety in Teens is starting a new section, every Monday, called Mention it to Morgs. Mention it to Morgs will be a question and answer section, where I will post the questions that I receive via email each week and answer them to my best ability! In case you are wondering who you’re writing these questions to, my name is Morgan (but everyone calls me Morgs), and … [Read more...]
Mention It To Morgs: Anxiety Attacks & Self Harm
Hi, everyone! Anxiety in Teens is starting a new section, every Monday, called Mention it to Morgs. Mention it to Morgs will be a question and answer section, where I will post the questions that I receive via email each week and answer them to my best ability! In case you are wondering who you’re writing these questions to, my name is Morgan (but everyone calls me Morgs), and … [Read more...]
Mention It To Morgs: Test Anxiety & Meds
Hi, Everyone! Anxiety in Teens is starting a new section, every Monday, called Mention it to Morgs. Mention it to Morgs will be a question and answer section, where I will post the questions that I receive via email each week and answer them to my best ability! In case you are wondering who you’re writing these questions to, my name is Morgan (but everyone calls me Morgs), and … [Read more...]
FROZEN Depression
This article is about how Frozen relates to mental health, so if you haven’t seen the movie, stop reading this and go see it ...because it’s amazing! I loved seeing the movie Frozen, and I am obsessed with the song from the soundtrack, “Let It Go”. I don’t think I ever realized why until my boyfriend said, “Do you love this part because it relates to you?” Obviously, … [Read more...]
It’s Not Cancer…It’s Trichotillomania
It is normal to trim or pull out a few split ends once in a while, but some people impulsively pull our their hair to the point of noticeable hair loss. Many people may assume that these individuals are going through chemotherapy simply because they have bald patches of hair. That, however, is not the case. These people suffer from trichotillomania. Trichotillomania … [Read more...]
Twitter Study Finds World Population’s Happiness Is Declining
Can you measure the world population's happiness using Twitter? That's what researchers at the University of Vermont believed in their three year study they conducted from September 2008 -- August 2011. After organizing 46 billion tweeted words by 63 million Twitter accounts, the researchers concluded that people's happiness seems to be declining. They instructed people … [Read more...]
Self-Harm: How to Deal, with a Little Advice from Demi Lovato
Almost two years in an ABC interview, Demi Lovato shared with the world her struggle with an eating disorder and bipolar disorder, leading her to self-harm. She expressed to ABC 20/20 reporter , "I thought, this is the way to deal with what you are feeling," [...] "it was a way of expressing my own shame of myself on my own body, I was matching the inside to the outside and … [Read more...]
Deep In The Hole Phase
September 25, 2011 was when the world collapsed on me The ground I once stood on had vanished The illusion I once held as true popped My chest was aching, my heart had dropped My head was a river of tear dropping thoughts. Whatever strength I had left within me was gone It was then, when I found myself lying inside a deep nasty, dirty, and very cold … [Read more...]
That Gray Feeling
Sometimes in life we come to a point where things aren’t the same anymore. We want to stay on our beds in the morning not because we are sleepy but because we are tired of life; there’s no reason to get up. It seems that our future holds the same color as the dim light in our room, there’s no sense of hope. All we can see of our lives is black, gray, and white. The thought … [Read more...]
Emotions and Depression: Can you combat negative emotions…
Dr. Bill Knaus, Ed. D., PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, July 23, 2012 When you feel depressed, your mood is the headline. However, the story of melancholia normally includes multiple negative emotions. Does shame shadow you? Do you feel straddled by apprehension? Is your tolerance for frustration low? Do you fume over little things? If you have depression, the chances are that you’ll have … [Read more...]