#MentalHealthBlog

[manicpixieirl]

october 15, 2023

I haven’t written in a few weeks, I think it’s because I’m afraid of what will come up if I open myself up to it. I’ve been good about consistently posting up until now. Part of my pause was purely ego, I didn’t know if something was worth writing if I wasn’t posting it. I didn’t write, I’ve been afraid to admit that I don’t think I’ve been taking as good of care of myself as I know I could be. I don’t say this in judgment, I say it in observation of myself- I know I could be doing better. I’ve been wondering what the point is.

I track my moods every day, on a scale of negative two to positive two. Negative two: “I really do not want to exist right now.” Positive two: “Nothing can fucking stand in my way.” I journal about the feelings associated with each number I give myself, lately my journal has been full of negative-one reflections. I was hoping that when I started this blog, it would reflect my progress. I was equating meditation with progression. This was intended to be a reflection of how well I was doing, instead it is a reflection of how hard this is. I wish I had positive news to share, it’s discouraging to share that this is a LOT harder than I thought it would be.

If anything, I owe myself honesty and consistency. I owe it to myself to admit that med-management isn’t perfect and being bipolar is fucking hard. I just need to say it; this is hard. I feel like there was a part of me that thought that taking meds would cure it, take away the negative-one days altogether, but after a few weeks of depression, isolation, and reflection, I don’t think that’s the point at all.

I think the point is to be aware of the days and to acknowledge that they will pass. The point is that I am eventually going to feel my feelings whether I like it or not, so I might as well write. I think the point is awareness.

I am thankful for this awareness, it will guide me to my next day. No matter where my mood falls on the scale, I can handle it, I can write about it, I can share it. That is the whole point.

[guiltfreemind]

Strategies to overcome overthinking

At one point in our lives, we all engage in overthinking. However, for some people overthinking is a constant thought pattern. Try as they might, they cannot stop the process. In my previous blog post, I discussed overthinking, what causes it, and the effect of overthinking on the overthinker’s life and well-being. In this blog post, I will focus on the strategies to overcome overthinking and how to break free of the loop.

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[thecpdiary]

How the Pandemic Has Changed Our Lives

The pandemic has and continues to have an impact on the vulnerable in society and social media is still a talking point on everything pandemic. It has and continues to affect the majority of people. I talk about these things on my blog, because they also affect me, my mental health.

The upheaval from Covid to poverty, is the reason why pupil absence in school is rising. (Source: theguardian). It has changed us, society is changed, the world is changed. For many people their lives are now permanently changed.

Social isolation of the pandemic

When you add social isolation, disruption to work, family routines, lockdown fever and economic instability, it is understandable and easy to see why the WHO say mental health has hit critical levels.

For many people, the pandemic isn’t over. There is little thought and consideration for the vulnerable, for people who are still cautious, for what's happening to people in society, for those who continue to need help. Covid isn't over, however many times we convince ourselves it is.

Animals help with mental health

I’m not sure adopting a dog would have been on the cards for many families, including mine. In the pandemic mental health is affected. In lockdown, charities saw a rise in pets being adopted, only to be returned, once the country got moving again.

Lives have changed

Our lives have changed, behaviours have changed. Many have commented on how we have become more self-absorbed, less charitable towards others. Isolation has tested our sense of identity. It is time for governments, opposition parties and society to unite, to work together. Most of us, according to social media, still live with the concern of the pandemic in our lives.

Although restrictions are lifted, many vulnerable people aren't back in their lives. With no moral high ground, it's a world I don’t want to recognise, but also a world I need to fit into, and I don’t know how to do that.

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[livewellclinics]

Mental Health disorders vary dramatically in presentation and severity, working proactively with a health practitioner can help to support you during tough times and to assist in the prevention of a worsening condition. Working from all angles ranging from gut, brain, supplemental and dietary support

[betteryouandfriends]

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[digiqure01]

Depression is a mental illness that plagues people all around the world. Though it can be challenging to overcome, there are ways to get help and start on the path to recovery. 

Read more about it here: https://bit.ly/3zEEA3k

[xmybipolarmindx]

How Saying These Three Affirmations Daily can Help Give Your Mental Health a Boost

#MentalHealth #Affirmations #SelfCare #SelfLove #SelfEsteem #TryThis #PositiveThinking #MentalHealthBlog #Blog #MyBipolarMind #Depression #Happiness #Happy #Beautiful #Loved #FeelBetter #MentalIllness #Blogger

Image by Rizal Deathrasher from Pixabay I have been told, for years, by many different mental health professionals to try saying affirmations to myself daily to help with my mental health disorders and self-esteem (which was pretty much non-existent). I have never really given it a try for longer than a week before. I felt so silly and stupid telling myself that I am beautiful when I did not…

[aliceeliza]

#mentalhealthcare #mentalhealthblog #mentalhealthjourney #mentalhealthisimportant #mentalhealthwarrior #mentalhealthquotes #mentalhealthrecovery #mentalhealthadvocate #suicideprevention #mentalhealthmatters #ukmummy #moneysavingstips #awarenessmatters #mumsquaduk #awarenessiseverything #awarenessraising #moneytipsforwomen #ukbloggersquad #moneysavingblogger #awarenesssaveslives

[manicpixieirl]

july 24, 2023

A month ago, I walked into my psychiatrist's office and left with a bottle of tiny blue pills. So much of my energy has been spent on catering to mania and depression that I forgot those aren’t the only two feelings that are a part of the human condition.

While I spent years of my life alternating between trying to bring my mood up when I was low and trying to bring myself back down when I was high, I never fully figured out how to bring myself back to center when I was anxious.

In this season of life, I am learning how to ground myself, trying to endure and ride the waves that anxiety has crashing on my shoreline.

The mania and depression have leveled out, gone back to their hiding spots until the next time they are supposed to sneak out and make themselves known. In leaving, they forgot to take anxiety with them, and now I am cycling between trying to control the future and being stuck in complete fear of it.

Manic highs and depressive lows are mountains and valleys I can navigate well. Anxiety is unfamiliar terrain, it feels like a tsunami, a giant wave I can’t climb or navigate, it just comes for me, heightening as the tide pulls in and swallowing me whole when the wave crashes. My anxiety typically manifests as a need to control the wave rather than ride it.

The waves feel like I am the new kid in school every day, overthinking things from my outfits, to my relationship, to whether or not I should have hugged a friend of a friend goodbye at a get-together we had last Sunday. Things that I normally wouldn’t have second guessed are now taking up entire bookshelves of my brain and I don’t know how to stop it.

Do I just accept this new symptom as a third party? My mountains are hills now and my valleys aren’t as low, so is this okay? Not if the anxiety is deafening. Not if I’m being crushed by the wave, only to drown in anxiety and fear of the future. What is all this for if I’m still lost in thought, trying to control tomorrow instead of living in the present?

There are days where it feels less like a tsunami and more like a riptide. I think that’s because now I know where it is coming from, but I don’t appreciate having panic attacks over whether or not I believe I can pull off overalls.

When I was in seventh grade, I went away to one of those week-long-youth-overnight-Christian-camps. I hated going, but something must have stuck since I still have my Faith and remember one sermon about tsunamis and fear of the future.

In 2004, there was a man who stood on the Sumatran Coast with his three sons. All he had with him were his children and a small boat. Suddenly, he felt the earth shake and watched all of the water in the ocean recede from the shoreline, collecting into one giant ball of potential energy at the end of the horizon. The man was paralyzed by his anxiety; he knew what was coming.

“Get in the boat.”

The man didn’t even look for the source of the sentence, at that moment, his flight response was activated. He had faith enough in the feeling to find his children, get in the boat, and paddle straight into the ocean, riding the wave and surviving the tsunami that his wife at home would fall victim to. He had faith, he got in the boat, he rode the wave.

Whether you take this as fact or as a parable, it is a beautiful story of perseverance and loss. May we all have enough faith in ourselves to ride the waves that come our way rather than try and control them. May we all acknowledge the things we lose in the tsunamis and the things we keep by maintaining our faith in ourselves, or in God, or in tiny blue pills.

A month ago, I walked into my psychiatrist's office and left with a bottle of tiny blue pills. So much of my energy has been spent on catering to mania and depression that I forgot those aren’t the only two feelings that are a part of the human condition.

While I spent years of my life alternating between trying to bring my mood up when I was low and trying to bring myself back down when I was high, I never fully figured out how to bring myself back to center when I was anxious.

In this season of life, I am learning how to ground myself, trying to endure and ride the waves that anxiety has crashing on my shoreline.

The mania and depression have leveled out, gone back to their hiding spots until the next time they are supposed to sneak out and make themselves known. In leaving, they forgot to take anxiety with them, and now I am cycling between trying to control the future and being stuck in complete fear of it.

Manic highs and depressive lows are mountains and valleys I can navigate well. Anxiety is unfamiliar terrain, it feels like a tsunami, a giant wave I can’t climb or navigate, it just comes for me, heightening as the tide pulls in and swallowing me whole when the wave crashes. My anxiety typically manifests as a need to control the wave rather than ride it.

The waves feel like I am the new kid in school every day, overthinking things from my outfits, to my relationship, to whether or not I should have hugged a friend of a friend goodbye at a get-together we had last Sunday. Things that I normally wouldn’t have second guessed are now taking up entire bookshelves of my brain and I don’t know how to stop it.

Do I just accept this new symptom as a third party? My mountains are hills now and my valleys aren’t as low, so is this okay? Not if the anxiety is deafening. Not if I’m being crushed by the wave, only to drown in anxiety and fear of the future. What is all this for if I’m still lost in thought, trying to control tomorrow instead of living in the present?

There are days where it feels less like a tsunami and more like a riptide. I think that’s because now I know where it is coming from, but I don’t appreciate having panic attacks over whether or not I believe I can pull off overalls.

When I was in seventh grade, I went away to one of those week-long-youth-overnight-Christian-camps. I hated going, but something must have stuck since I still have my Faith and remember one sermon about tsunamis and fear of the future.

In 2004, there was a man who stood on the Sumatran Coast with his three sons. All he had with him were his children and a small boat. Suddenly, he felt the earth shake and watched all of the water in the ocean recede from the shoreline, collecting into one giant ball of potential energy at the end of the horizon. The man was paralyzed by his anxiety; he knew what was coming.

“Get in the boat.”

The man didn’t even look for the source of the sentence, at that moment, his flight response was activated. He had faith enough in the feeling to find his children, get in the boat, and paddle straight into the ocean, riding the wave and surviving the tsunami that his wife at home would fall victim to. He had faith, he got in the boat, he rode the wave.

Whether you take this as fact or as a parable, it is a beautiful story of perseverance and loss. May we all have enough faith in ourselves to ride the waves that come our way rather than try and control them. May we all acknowledge the things we lose in the tsunamis and the things we keep by maintaining our faith in ourselves, or in God, or in tiny blue pills.

[arawhuman]

It sucks that most of the times it’s this way. Men’s mental health is important and they deserve proper attention and validation, it angers me how much men can be shamed should they admit to feeling sad, depressed, etc.

[thecpdiary]

Not Insignificant

An independent writer who was struggling with her writing, wondering if she should give up writing came across this quote, that made her rethink. It made me rethink too.

"In the grand scheme of things, you’re insignificant. Nothing you do “matters,” except that it matters to you. Go for it because you have nothing to lose."

I had nothing to lose

My blog has made me significant, it has given me a voice and for the first time. I hope where my writing matters to me, others see the benefit for them also. What I write is significant, not insignificant. It gives insight to a whole new thinking that helps with mental health. My blog, The CP Diary, and my voice are absolutely significant.

We have a lot to gain when we deal with our mental health

I think if more people read my blog and dealt with their mental health, they would begin to understand and see themselves differently. Currently, mental health is at critical levels, cancer is more prevalent than it's ever been and the world's population is still ignoring anything to do with their mental health.

My writing helps to inspire, to change the way we think about our health, so that we can change aspects of our life. If you want to see and read more of my blogs that help with mental and emotional health, please help by continuing to support my blog.

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[theladysteffi]

Something I seriously need to talk to somebody about, but I have SO MUCH trouble vibing with a therapist. I usually only wind up with more issues. Reposted from @earthbound_madness #adhd #autism #anxiety #mentalhealth #adhdawareness #add #adhdproblems #depression #adhdsupport #mentalhealthawareness #adhdbrain #neurodiversity #adhdmemes #mentalhealthblog #adhdisreal #autisme #adultadhd #adhdwomen #ptsd #life #invisibleillness #fibromyalgia #chroniclife #chronicillness #pain #broken #brokenheart #depressed #anxiety (at Warren, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVoZkSNscTP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heranxiouslife]

Advice I lived by

Do one thing a day that is productive. Whether that be work or school related. Something to tick off the to do list

Do one thing a day that will make you feel better. For me, this is cooking a healthy meal. Going for a run. Having a shower.

Do one thing a day solely for you. Because you enjoy it. For me, that was reading, or coloring, or being with friends.

This is the advice given to me by my therapist a few months ago. I've modified the exact wording slightly (memory issues) but it still pretty solid advice, I think. Of course, this doesn't mean you can't do more of these things. Repeat them. This is the minimum. If you can.

[betteryouandfriends]

Great reminders for when in doubt 🌿 Double tap if you needed to hear this today!❤️ #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthday #mentalhealthrecovery #mentalhealthwarrior #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthawarness #mentalhealthadvocate #mentalhealthblogger #mentalhealthstigma #mentalhealthquotes #mentalhealthmemes #MentalHealthBlog #mentalhealthart #mentalhealthissues #mentalhealthwarriors #mentalhealthisreal #mentalhealthadvice #mentalhealthawarenes #mentalhealthcounseling #mentalhealthyoga #mentalhealthcommunity #betteryouandfriends #MentalHealthAdvocacy https://www.instagram.com/p/Cop8t7LrvqJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xoaspiewriterxo]

People with Autism are not weirdos

People with adhd are not attention seeker

People with learn difficulties are not useless

People with dyslexia are not stupid

People with OCD are not control freaks

People with anxiety are not stuck up or rude

People with depression are not just “moody”

#Endthestigma

[mandyjane-lifedesign]

#keepgoing #moveforward #babysteps #purpose #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthquotes #mentalhealthrecovery #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthblogger #mentalhealthblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2rS5-srh3/?utm_medium=tumblr