Category: Mental Health

  • Let’s Talk About Mental Health and Sarahah

    I decided to sit down and create a short video about my thoughts and experience on the Sarahah app that was all the buzz recently and also about mental health and how things can affect me related to criticism and judgement and things of that nature when dealing with my anxiety and depression.

  • The Bully Inside My Mind

    We hear a lot these days about bullying. The majority of it pertains to school age kids or online bullying. Bullying is not a new concept by any means but in further years past it was more of a “hush hush” or taboo subject. It was almost normal to “tease” others. I was definitely bullied…

  • The Time Someone I Knew Raped Me

    As I was sitting and watching some back episodes of the show “Switched At Birth” I came to the episode where the character Bay was raped by an ex-boyfriend. She got drunk at a party and did not remember and was too drunk to have consented to any type of sexual activity. I began to…

  • I Am Feeling Like A Failure!

    Today as I sit typing this on the eve of my 43rd birthday I am still so sad and heartbroken.  I have cried on and off all day.   Today has been one of the worst I have had in a long time.  There have been quite a few bad ones but today took the…

  • Medication Does Not Cure Mental Illness

      I always see these articles about anxiety and depression that list some of the things that people who have one or both of them wish others knew.  All of the common signs and symptoms are listed there but I have found that one thing that is rarely talked about is the fact that medication…

  • Having Depression And Anxiety Can Be Pure Hell

    Sometimes I debate on what I will post or write about when it comes to my depression and anxiety issues but tonight I just feel like I need to be real.  I am always open that I have them but don’t always go into a lot of details.  There are a lot of sayings out…