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depression

Embracing the Darkness of Depression

December 16, 2016 By Kristina Hammer of The Angrivated Mom

Little can be done to change the fact that my brain is not hardwired as it should be, but plenty can be done to cope with the effects of the disease. Medications, therapies, and self-care techniques, coupled with a toolbox full of how to’s and what not to do’s learned by trial and error, make […]

Filed Under: To Insanity and Beyond Tagged With: be still, cry, darkness, depression, do nothing, embrace, feeling bad, find perspective, getting better, living with mental illness, mental illness, passing storms

I Found Pain Relief With Medical Marijuana

October 16, 2016 By Kristina Hammer of The Angrivated Mom

Living with a disease that causes chronic pain was never part of my life plans. I couldn’t have prepared for it. Even if I had known what was in store beforehand. Pain. Limitations. Treatments. Therapies. Depression. They’re all part of the package. Finding relief while learning to navigate around my restrictions became the sole purpose […]

Filed Under: To Insanity and Beyond Tagged With: alternative medications, back pain, depression, disability, emotional effects of chronic pain, genetic disorder, living with chronic pain, medical marijuana, pain relief

Breathe

July 29, 2016 By Richard Black

“Just breathe,” I say to Darcy, my six-year-old daughter. “Look in my eyes and just breathe.” She’s taken a fall on the sidewalk, running in the ill-advised flip flops I told her to trade in for more sensible shoes. “I told you so,” however, holds little satisfaction from a parent with a six-year-old. In young […]

Filed Under: Columns, The Unfit Father, Uncategorized Tagged With: breathe, children, depression, OCD, panic, panic disorder

Depression – The One Word I Wish My Kids Never Knew

June 7, 2016 By Kristina Hammer of The Angrivated Mom

Depression. As a writer, a lover of all words big and small, it is one of very few I can say I vehemently hate. The ugliest of words, it is. It defines everything that has ever gone wrong in my life, my head, and my soul. It is the catalyst that destroys all that I […]

Filed Under: To Insanity and Beyond Tagged With: depression, living with mental illness, mental health, raising kids

Child, We Will Live Forever (and It Will Never Be Too Much)

September 21, 2015 By Jeremy McKeen

How do you respond to children's questions about death? I can't think of a better way than this.

“Are you going to love me, even when you die?” my daughter asks as we’re making lunch. “Forever and ever,” I reply, quickly, as I have before, to the same question. She knows the answer already, and she’s only five. These chats have become a recurring thing. “And even when I die?” Her concept of […]

Filed Under: Life, Parenting Tagged With: anxiety, children, death, depression, dying, first funeral, ptsd, stress, talking about death

Mental Illness and Who I Am Because of It

September 1, 2015 By Natalia Bowser

[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] You’re stupid. You’re selfish. Grow up and quit acting like a child. Three statements I’ve heard so many times in my life I’ve begun to believe them, even repeat them to myself. Who am I? I’m nobody special, nobody you would remember in a crowd of strangers. Nobody you would seek […]

Filed Under: Education, Health, Life Tagged With: anxiety, depression, Life

My Friend the Anxiety Monster

November 3, 2014 By Lola Lolita

My friend the Anxiety Monster usually trails somewhere near me at all times, popping up when I can’t find my keys and am running late, or when somebody yells at me in person, or via email at work, or when my kids have stage 6 temper tantrums and I can’t get to the bathroom quickly […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: anxiety, coping with anxiety, depression, living with anxiety, living with mental illness, mental health, mental illness

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