Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Depression. I have not missed you.
Depression returns after coming off a medication that had been working, the gnawing thoughts that follow, and the methods that help hold the line.
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Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Depression, anxiety and seasonal affective disorder, written from inside it rather than from the far side.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
How are you dealing during this crazy time?
Mental health during a year that upended everything: daily affirmations, gratitude writing, yoga, time in nature, and finding a good counsellor.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
How to Mom/Dad with Anxiety/Depression.
Practical ways to keep parenting while anxiety and depression are at their worst: one day at a time, stepping away, and being honest with your kids.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Let’s Talk About it (It’s Okay to not be Okay)
What it means to answer honestly when someone asks how you are, and why finding a community changes what a hard mental-health season feels like.
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Attempting to Overcome This S.A.D. Season. (Part II)
The practical things that help through a Seasonal Affective Disorder season: yoga, affirmations, book club, bike rides, volunteering and better mornings.
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S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and Me (Part I)
Why autumn brings dread rather than comfort, the stressors that stack up each year, and an honest account of Seasonal Affective Disorder arriving.
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Rollercoaster
A guest post by Amberleigh Starr on living with an ongoing mental-health battle, and holding on to the belief that broken crayons still colour.
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Suicide Part 2: Why Me?
The aftermath of a suicide attempt: family dynamics, the weight carried as the oldest of four, and what she wants anyone still there to know.
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Suicide. My Story. Part 1
Amanda's own account of her suicide attempt as a teenager, the friend who intervened, and the semicolon tattoo that reminds her to continue.
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The Little Girl Inside Me
What a new counsellor helped surface about the little girl still looking for love, and the realisation that what she wanted was already there.
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Always Choose Kindness
How one unexpected hug from another mom landed during the worst of an anxiety spike, and why small acts of kindness matter more than we realise.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Insignificant. I am not.
On the daily fight with feeling invisible, where that feeling started in childhood, and the decision to keep showing up anyway for three children.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Overthinking Gift Giving Syndrome. It’s a thing.
Why choosing a gift can spiral into hours of anxious second-guessing, and the small mercy of admitting the overthinking is part of the gift.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Depression Sucks, But You Don’t Have To.
What it actually takes to get depression and anxiety medication adjusted after a thyroidectomy, and how hard the system is even with good insurance.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
We are all a bit crazy and that’s okay.
Some days are fine and some days leaving the house feels impossible. A short, direct piece about anxiety and the masks that people wear over it.
Mental Health & Hard Seasons
Let Me Tell You a Thing or Two About Depression
Twenty years of antidepressants, counsellors and cycles, written plainly by someone still in it, with resources for anyone who needs them today.