Category: Mental Illness
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How I Held Myself Back
Life is a time in which we have the opportunity to learn about ourselves. I know for me, I learned the most about myself when I was struggling. However, it took patience, mistakes, and professional guidance for me to understand my faults and turn them into life lessons. With my…
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Foggy Futures Will Come into Focus
*TRIGGER WARNING: The topic of suicide is mentioned in this post.* Imagining your future is such a strange phenomenon. Throughout your life, you will imagine many versions of yourself. Many jobs, many houses, and many names for your future children. Life is full of planning for what is yet to…
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Get Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable
A couple months back I saw this quote online from nOCD. It really hit home and was the perfect reminder that there is no reason to fear my anxiety. In the past, the moment I felt the tingle of anxiety was the moment I would quickly try to shove it away. If…
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Got to Go Through It!
“We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it!” – Michael Rosen, We’re Going On A Bear Hunt. Do you remember the children’s book called Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen? It shares the journey of siblings going through the wilderness to hunt a bear.…
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Just Beneath The Surface
It bubbles and boils beneath my skin. It laughs mockingly, knowing my power over it may simply only be temporary. It tingles as it burns through my arteries. It waits in front of the locked door awaiting its triumphant return. He knows the moment he steps through the door; I…
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To Those Who Feel Hollow
To those who feel hollow: you are not alone. I know you hear this constantly. It is repeated in the media. Hotlines are thrown at you left and right. You think, “as if a phone call will be able to fill this emptiness inside me.” People say, “I am here…
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Welcome, 2018…Forgive The Hesitant Hello.
2017, I’m afraid to say goodbye. You gave me the best year of my entire life. Truly. It was a year of triumph, success, and pay off. I can not thank you enough for showing me what life is truly supposed to feel like. Fifteen years of being chronically sick…
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What I Wish People Knew About OCD
It is officially OCD Awareness Week! Yay! To celebrate, I want to address some misconceptions, useful facts, and where you can go if you want to learn more about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Education is key to ending the mental health stigma! First and foremost, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not a…
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Being Drafted Into the Mental Health War
I am going to take you back in time. We are in the Fall of 2007. My parents only child has been very sick now for four years. She was diagnosed with Severe Tourette Syndrome in third grade. She has been on over 50 different medications. None of them easing…
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In Old New York
It is crazy to think I have been living in Brooklyn for almost a month now. I have just fallen in love. I love the people – who are not the rude New Yorkers you hear about on TV. I love the beauty of the buildings. I never thought of buildings…
Chipper Chelsea Kay 