humanity
Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.
When will it get better?
I am broken, I look around and see people living their lives, holding hands, watching the sun go down or sitting together at a cafe planning. Thats not me, and I fear it never will be. I want to be happy, to smile and laugh and wake up each day with renewed faith that something wonderful is coming. Yet I don’t, I am on my sofa curled with a blanket crying, and I cry and cry until my partner comes home.
By MoriaCavandish6 years ago in Psyche
Ataraxia
INTRODUCTION “Ataraxia? And what the fuck is that”. I can tell by my psychologist, Jaiyana Crossley AKA the judge of all thee labeled mentally misfit BKA my recurring monthly expense. Dr. J’s reaction that my vulgar vernacular struck her moral values. It amazes me how people act as if with all the crime, obscenities, and sexual advertising that the word “fuck” hasn’t lost its shock factor and is still considered offensive. Oh wow, she is still talking. Once again I retreated to the unsafe confines of my “louder than reality thoughts”. I hate when I do that.
By Tenika Bolton 6 years ago in Psyche
Pete’s diner
I watched her throw silverware around and shuffle pots and pans the last 15 years of my childhood. Every night. Religiously. I never quite understood why and I never asked. She’d stare into a seemingly empty wall but her eyes told a different story. They were bright and awake and a sideways smile would creep into the side of her cheek like a spider pulling the last thread of her web.
By Michelle Tucker6 years ago in Psyche
The importance of mental health support when returning to work
Coronavirus has made returning to the office a period of great anxiety. But returning to work after a pandemic is only part of the disparities between a healthy work-life and good mental health. Data is increasingly providing evidence that our psychological resilience is on the decline: according to one survey, only 13 per cent of people in the UK reported that they had good mental health.
By Jack Johnson6 years ago in Psyche
Titular
EXT. DOWNTOWN ATLANTA GEORGIA - DAY Pan down on a big city in 2020, zoom in to a building showing a MAN inside standing behind one of its many windows. Inside a therapist's office, the MAN has his back turned on the THERAPIST, looking out the window, talking.
By Jonathan Mosby6 years ago in Psyche
Above the World but Mindful of Me
TW: Suicide Dear Carleigh, You will never read this unless some miracle happens and we get back together, but I do not see that happening. I bought this journal to fill its pages with everything I want to say to you. I find myself wanting to tell you everything. I always have, you brought new ideas into my world and I am working on being a better person because of you. I hoped that you would have chosen me over your ex because I always pushed you to be a better version of yourself and toward your dreams. I hoped that there were more reasons to choose me but I guess there wasn’t, so here I am alone. Alone and reminded me that I am too broken, that I am writing in a journal because I am too much and too emotional. That I finally broke down that barrier too late and now spread open with no defenses and my feelings bleeding all over the place…
By Sarah Beattie6 years ago in Psyche
being a pain patient in the middle of a drug addiction crisis
As most of you all will be aware these days, time and time again you'll see on the news something to do with the opioid crisis gripping the country, actually a lot of countries around the world. This person overdosed and died. Kids left in cars, parents passed out. Doctor shopping gone crazy, the up scheduling of medications, doctors constantly told not to prescribe too many, and they'll have to explain themselves, should that rates they prescribe opioids, be too high compared to other doctor's in the same area. Unless, of course they are a pain specialist, palliative care or cancer specialist. While changes are badly needed and I certainly agree with certain steps there are a lot of things that need to change before its too late. Before people feel that suicide is the only way out of their constant, draining and soul destroying life. See, now things have gone too far on the side of caution, pain patients, who could access their pain medications now have to jump through hoop after hoop. Like they have to prove they aren't addicts or drug dealers. You'll see your doctor for your regular medications for your non-cancer pain, especially since the new rules came in, feeling like your doing something wrong. Something you have done quite possibly for years, only to feel like your be looked at like an addict or dealer of some kind. You feel like that if you ask for an increase of medication, or just going back up to the doses you were on a month or two ago, because you gave it a go at a lower dose and it's not enough, is a luxury that you have to earn. You are at the mercy of the doctor you see. And what kills is you feel like a lap dog begging for a treat after fetching the ball for your owner, a second class citizen just for accessing the necessary medicine you need. And of course, the younger you are the worse it is.
By Louise Dickson6 years ago in Psyche
