mental-health

     “That wardrobe is so schizophrenic. The weather has been bipolar lately. I just killed myself studying.”     I have heard phrases like these more this semester than any other time in my life. That is not to say it’s all suddenly brand new. Rather, I hear these phrases because I’m more aware about mental health and the word choices we use to describe it.     These phrases cut through to my very soul when I hear them.     We don’t often consider how our words may affect others who are silent, nearby, and potentially listening. I know I’ve fallen for this mistake myself—many a time—and I

People will be out to get you. Your world will break; Your reality will shake. But this will make you. You won't actually commit suicide at 20. You'll remember it forever, but life will fly by and you'll get better. Monday, August 20th, 2018, when you are 24, You will break down, you will feel the dizziness, the numbness that panic is. Stay calm you must. You'll be in the process of healing and you'll know this is all part of something greater. You'll know this does not define you. You'll know it's ok to hit a weak spot. You will decide to finally go to therapy, and you'll go from there. You'll be on the way to hitting the opposit

It’s a Friday night. The kind of Friday night filled with loneliness and drunken posts on your Instagram feed. You decide there’s nothing worse than dying lonely AND hungry, so you put the fifth of whiskey to the ground and head to the kitchen to make a quick snack. You remember this YouTube video where someone, clearly partaking in the Devil’s Lettuce, fried up some Mac n’ Cheese in a ball. You have some Mac congealed to the bottom of a plastic container, vaguely smelling a bit off. You also have some oil sitting in a pan already -one less step, you tell yourself. It was from when you were frying up some hotdogs, so y

I have Learning Disabilities And Tourette Syndrome too Living with these two things The hardships I've been through I'm also overweight But despite all these things I still love life And all that it brings :)