I’ve talked several times on this site about my faith, and in particular how my faith has been helpful for me in managing my mental illnesses. Yet I haven’t addressed one important question that I struggled with early on, a question that I think many who have chronic illness struggle with. Where is God during […]
In the Bible, the original sin occurs when a serpent comes and deceives Eve into eating of the fruit of knowledge. She then convinces her husband, Adam, to do so as well. From that moment, humanity fell away from God. Humanity became filled with sin. However, God sent his only son to die for our […]
October started and ended with me fight through depressions. Yet, most of the month was actually fairly good. It was the longest stretch I’ve had without a depressive episode in a while, and, as an added treat, it was the best month for this site’s overall viewership, so thank you for that! Depression is a […]
I am going to continue the rain theme I started yesterday. Yesterday, I talked about how you can’t change the rain, can’t wish it away, and that you can’t wish away mental illness either. Today I am going to look beyond the rain. Because without rain, you’ll never get a rainbow. And similarly, as challenging […]
Today’s post is my 200th. And I want to use my 200th post to take a moment and reflect on why I take the time to write these posts. Yes, it is therapeutic and yes I like to write. But it is more than that. It is something I feel needs to be done. […]
There are many tools one can use to fight back against their mental illness. One such tool, a tool I have not used, is gratitude journaling. The idea is simple. Mental illness creates negative, intrusive thoughts, and gratitude journaling creates positive thoughts. But like I said, I haven’t used it. I haven’t used it because […]
Mental illness is wicked in many ways. One of those wicked ways is that it will convince your own brain to lie to you. It will convince you that people you know love you don’t, that you are alone when you aren’t, and that you shouldn’t get help, when you really should. So it can […]
