Category: Mental Health
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Disorder
It always starts with the same thought: “I need to lose weight.” I’ve known this for a long time. My entire life, I’ve struggled with my weight. Lose, gain, lose, gain, lose, gain….on an endless loop. Logically, I know how to lose weight properly by eating healthy and exercising, limiting fat, sugar, etc. But my…
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A Can of Beets
Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, I left everything and everyone I knew to move four hours away because of a man. A man who presented as caring, kind, and understood me in ways no one else did. What I didn’t know at the time was that he was an abuser.…
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Peel The Onion
“Peel the onion” refers to allowing the different layers of self to peel back, revealing the hidden parts so they may emerge.
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Self Care
How do you define self care? Self care can take many different forms and it’s important to take time for yourself.
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Cutting Cords
Cutting the cords that bind my mind Light the match Set it ablaze, watch everything burn Nothing more than ashes, No meaning, no ties. Darkness, silence. Freedom.
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It’s Getting Bad Again
I’ve struggled with depression for most of my life. I remember having thoughts of not wanting to be alive starting when I was 7 or 8 years old. Those thoughts have never completely gone away. I was prescribed an antidepressant for the first time when I was 26 years old. It helped some but ended…
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Nothing
None of this matters. Burn it all down. Burn away the blood marked walls I punched until my hands shattered But not before metal tore flesh in a final goodbye note. Everything is empty. Burn me to ash, let the wind scatter me into oblivion.
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Work In Progress
During a session with my therapist yesterday, she said something that struck me to my core. “You are a work in progress.” There was discussion surrounding that, but her statement flipped on the light switch. I could suddenly breathe again. I’ve been holding my breath for decades. It’s a simple statement with an ocean of…
Countess Wolf 