Mental Illness and Resilience
Mental Illness and Resilience is about living with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and the exhausting work of staying alive. Here, theory stops and lived experience begins.
You know what it’s like. Some mornings the thoughts start before your feet hit the floor: fuck, it’s another day. I wish I weren’t here. They’d get over it. My art sucks. No one is coming because I suck. He was right about me.
You know in your gut none of it is true. But all of it is loud. Fighting through to the truth takes herculean strength, every single morning.
Here, resilience isn’t another call to pretend you’re okay. Resilience is forcing yourself to remember the good days will keep coming, even on the mornings you first step into hell.
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The Haunting Is The Healing: Where Trauma Meets The Unseen
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Grounded in the Rockets’ Red Glare
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The Wounded Healer: Embracing Your Story Through Creativity
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Living in Bipolar Disorder and the Grayness of Mental Illness
March 30 is World Bipolar Day, a time to raise awareness and break the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder. But for many of us living with…
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Your Trauma Healing Journey: Making Peace with Contradictions
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Why Am I an Artist?
To Be Free I create art to slip off into a place of no time, no worry, no depression, and no PTSD. While creating, I…
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The Truth About Hearing Voices
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Is This Depression or Bipolar?
The writer reflects on their struggle with mental illness, emphasizing that the distinction between depression and bipolar disorder is overshadowed by the profound impact of…
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