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I was still struggling this past week with crippling anxiety and depression. In fact, my anxiety had me waiting to go to the BMV to register Kavin’s car (which should have been done by Friday). I almost didn’t do it on Saturday either but I pushed through (with the help of a Xanax) and his…
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Here’s one reality of mental health: We lost our state insurance at the end of October. We no longer qualified but we make just little enough that our two youngest sons can still be covered by it. We were expecting to qualify, but didn’t find out until the end of the month that we didn’t…
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Here we go friends. It’s time to talk about my first husband. We’re going to call him “C” because his name really doesn’t matter. I met “C” when I was 18 years-old. I don’t remember where, but a group of us girls were out one night and we met a group of guys. “C” was…
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Hey friends! Sorry I’ve been MIA. I was showing up every week to share my story and then, out of nowhere, I just disappeared. I owe you an explanation and here it is. I’M STRUGGLING! There, I said it outloud. I think I avoided saying that to my therapist and psychologist because then it makes…
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At 17, I had already quit school and was doing it online. I had been to the psych ward and stayed a week. I was smoking cigarretes and weed occasionally, and was drinking. I had one friend my age and one that was two years older. The friend that was two years older was actually…
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This quote sums up the basis of Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen. We’ve discussed the negativity bias last week which is caused by our thinking. The negativity bias says that are brains are wired for a fight of flight response. Basically, our thinking immediately goes to negative thoughts, they’re much easier to…
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I was in my therapist’s office having a session recently when I realized that it was so easy for me to remember the bad/negative stuff and hard to pick out the good times. I asked why that was, but in the same breath I said “I’m going to research that because it would make a…
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