Several months ago, I made a proclamation while teaching an exercise class. It started as a joke, I think, but perhaps there was more to it in my mind at the time. I had spent the entire class complaining about the stressors in my life...
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Tragedy surrounds me, suffocating me from the outside in. Anxiety gnaws at me, destroying me from the inside out. I don’t want to live but I don’t want to die. I guess I just don’t want to live like this. This is a far too familiar feeling.
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Mental health can deteriorate in many different ways and while we have come a long way spreading awareness of it, we still have much further to go. A couple weeks ago, I had a minor incident before work that could have ruined my whole day if I had let it.
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My aunt, Mary, and I were thrust into each others’ lives when I was almost 23 years old. When this happened, there were two scenarios we didn't expect that first of all we would become as close as we did, and secondly that we would write a memoir together...
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Even still in 2019, there is a stigma against therapy and those who use its services. We’ve heard it, we’ve lived it too. As two people who grew up with a person of severe mental illness chasing us at our heels, Mary and I share a deep understanding of the topic.
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