Coping & Thriving
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Telling My Friends About My Depression Saved My Life
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Ask anyone living with a mental illness and they will agree with you on this: Talking about your illness isn’t easy. And if you live with major depressive ...

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4 Tips That Help Me Cope with Shoulder Limitations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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What You Need to Hear on Your Darkest Days with Mental Illness
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It’s 2022, and I refer to 2013 as being 7 years ago. I don’t know where the time went and when I start to think about it, it’s all a blur, as if I have been on ...

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