It's been nearly a month since I've last posted on here, my blog. A lot has happened... A LOT. My psychiatrist and I are trying to lower my dosage of one of my medications, the one that I've been on for the longest. After lowering the dose by half, I thought I'd adjust fine because …
How can you tell?
"The day I came out of my depression..." "My depression cycle has ended..." "I don't feel depressed anymore..." I keep seeing stuff like this across multiple blogs. I don't understand it. How can you decipher the moment that your depression has lifted? Is there a particular feeling in your gut or thought in your head? …
Patient Abandonment?
Patient abandonment... I just stumbled across this term yesterday, but never really knew that this was such a thing. It can even have legal consequences and malpractice lawsuits. Like many others, I had a therapist and a psychiatrist who worked together to discuss what was best for my mental health treatment. My therapist, who is …
Creating a routine & staying consistent
Some people do best with spontaneity, I do best with organization, routine, and consistency. Lately, I've deviated from that and my mind is just about as hazy as the sky in the areas of the California fires. In order to get my head on straight, I need to get organized...and quite frankly, clean my room …
“I’m done hiding this”
The brief summary that I read from Jason Kander, the Kansas City mayoral candidate who recently withdrew from the race, had left me with a great sense of empathy. While I am a very empathic individual, what he has said has remained with me the last few days. See his note to the public here …
Five Ways Professors Can Help Students With Mental Illness — Psychology Today
Professors often feel ill-equipped to help students with mental illness. These five simple measures may have a real impact on struggling students. via Five Ways Professors Can Help Students With Mental Illness — Psychology Today
My Problem with Medications
When were you diagnosed with a psychiatric illness? Were you an adult? How about a teenager? Before you were a teenager?! Were you put on medications? Yep, that's me. I was either 12 or 13 when I was first diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and was told to start taking antidepressants daily. There was only …
Day 78/100
JUNE 20 What are 10 things that inspire you? My parents My dad inspires me through his personality, his work ethic, and the insane amount of patience he has with everything. I've rarely seen this man angry and when he was, I could tell he hated feeling anything but happiness. He's worked so hard to …
Day 76/100
JUNE 15 Complete a puzzle. I was recommended quite a while ago by my therapist to download an application on my phone named Virtual Hope Box. This app was recommended for me in order to have a distraction for when I start feeling angry or anxious. Its an app that has many different puzzles and …
Day 67/100
JUNE 3 Cut out negative people. It's no secret that I have terrible social anxiety and rarely go out, therefore, I don't necessarily have "negative" people in my life. Someone who I was friends with for a very, very long time was one of the people I had to cut out for my mental health …
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