My Journey with Anxiety
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All I want is to be loved, that’s the only thing I want. But I’m now realizing that I need to love myself before I can let anyone love me, it’s exhausting being in relationships when your mental health isn’t…
Finding My Rhythm
Three years ago I fell. I fell into a vicious cycle of bulimia, starving myself and self harming. Maybe I did it to kill what was hurting me from inside, maybe to shut my depression and anxiety out, or maybe…
The Wall In My Head
Living with mental illness is like living with a wall in your head. In my mind there’s a wall that’s held me back for so long, for too long to be honest. I started off with a few bricks. Little…
Escaping the Dark
My encountered with the dark started back in 2006. I was a college student just trying to navigate my young adult life. What started as a grumble of disinterest turned into a mountain of dark thoughts and feelings over the…
Plus Sized Hiking Through the Pandemic
During the Spring of 2020, I was cooped up like everyone else and going stir crazy. I had already been struggling with my mental health and the pandemic made it 10x worse. My depression and anxiety were debilitating. As a…
My Name Is James Rose, And This Is My Story
Back in 2009, I was serving with the 2nd battalion at the Yorkshire regiment, on my first operational tour of Afghanistan. 5 weeks into my tour on a routine foot patrol in the upper valley of garesh we were due…
5 Things I Use To Manage My Mental Health
I thought it would be a nice idea to tell you about my favourite things I use to manage my mental health. Some I use for my anxiety, some for my depression, and some for both. Create a schedule: Sometimes…
You Are Not Alone
Around three years ago, I started feeling sad. Did I know why I was sad? No. Did I talk to anyone about it? No. I simply felt alone. I spent many nights and days where I would have random periods…
Learning To Accept Yourself
Accepting ourselves is never easy. Loving everything about us is a journey that requires patience and a lot of energy. We spend so much time being conscious about the things we don’t like that we end up undervaluing what we…
I’ve Saved Five And A Half Lives
The first was at prom night. My date had ditched me for his crush, so I was the only one who noticed my classmate drinking too much of the complimentary champagne. When he left, I followed, and pulled him back…
