Coping & Thriving
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4 Tips That Help Me Cope with Shoulder Limitations

I have been thinking lately about how far I have come in six years of living with shoulder limitations.  Six years ago, I had just stepped down from the ...

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7 Ways You Can Support Someone Who Has Schizoaffective Disorder

Do you have a friend or family member with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder? To begin, I want to explain what schizoaffective disorder is. ...

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The Struggle to Balance Work and Managing My Chronic Disease

Sometimes I wake up and it hurts. Sometimes it’s OK. Sometimes, it’s OK for a very long time but then, the pain comes back full force. Sometimes, I wake up ...

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Why I Don’t Call Surviving Stage 4 Childhood Cancer a Miracle

The Men in the White Coats The room fell silent. The type of uproarious silence louder than sound itself. I’d never felt the “roar” of silence until that ...

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I Thought My OCD Intrusive Thoughts Meant I Wanted to Hurt People

Out of all the anxiety disorder symptoms I've experienced, intrusive thoughts are definitely the worst. There are many struggles faced by people living with ...

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Why Loneliness Can Be the Hardest Thing to Overcome in Your Mental Health Recovery

When I was 16 and attending high school, depression and loneliness ruled my life. What was baffling was that, in the eyes of people around me, I had everything ...

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How Healing From Trauma Is Like the Tides of an Ocean

If our dreams are supposed to be representative of what our unconscious minds are processing, mine are very revealing. I often have a recurring dream that ...

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How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Help You Manage Suicidal Ideation

I have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder since 2018, but since my youth, I have always suffered from a lack of meaning in life. It was only ...

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Functioning with Depression: My Best Life Advice

The saying goes: “You learn something new every day.” Well, it’s been a lot of days and I am running out of “facts I didn’t already know.” I am constantly ...

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Finding My Daily Reprieve in Life with Chronic Mental Illness

Life sometimes seems to come down to small moments that open highways of opportunities that can take you almost anywhere. One of these was my last night ...

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