Visiting Hours — Surviving the Narrative, Not the Addiction
I was losing myself, and had for a long time, in a slow but unnerving creeping way. Things I tried to hold on to had been falling out betwee...
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My Own Flying Monkey — Understanding C-PTSD and the Inner Critic
It has been a wild journey of suffering and confusion. Not knowing how to handle my own life, ending up relying on self-medication with toda...
Understanding the hard time
A year ago, I didn't understand what was happening inside me. I knew something was wrong and I had known for a very long time, just not ...
Coming home to a different home
Growing up, I lived one experience and assumed it was the only one. I didn't question how I saw things, how I reacted, how I made sense ...
The trap of holding on — Escaping Depression's Belief That You're Broken Beyond Repair
“You can always measure what you’ll lose, but you can’t see what you’ll gain.” - Kyle Cease I have created this idea that I am broken, and h...
Ask the right question — A Simple Tool for Resisting Alcohol Cravings
What is the ONE Thing I can do, such that in doing so, it will make everything else easier or unnecessary? “Ask the right question, get the ...
The unconscious you, more you then you think. — Anxiety, the Body's Alarm System, and Letting Go of Alcohol
Being aware of your unconscious you. We are 99% unconscious in what is going on, but we walk around this place and believe we are 100% consc...
The power of Awareness — Catching the Early Signs of Depression and Alcohol Dependence
Sweet short and to the point. You can’t fix a problem you are not aware of. It is so easy to see in heine sith or with added knowledge. A pr...
Depression lies to you. Alcohol makes the lies believable. — Breaking the Cycle with Self-Compassion
Most people would have heard the saying, to drown your sorrows, and that means with alcohol. Depression and alcohol are in a dark relationsh...
If I can just! — How Undiagnosed Depression Hid Behind Constant Achievement
Repeat and go. I kept my life on track by keeping busy from one thing to the next. It was always something that had to be accomplished in my...
