Happy May my loves! May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the main theme this year is “You are not alone.” As I talked about in my Anxiety Workbook: Breathe, I grew up feeling like I was just weird. I didn’t know social anxiety was a thing and even after…
Has anyone else found out that their stress tolerance is wonky lately? If so, I have 5 tips to relieve stress for you! It felt like pre-pandemic I could juggle so much more. I’ve noticed that even though I spend more time at home relaxing, my stress tolerance has gone…
You know how anxious people are…. anxious? But when you ask us what we’re anxious about, sometimes we don’t even know? I made a list for that. A lot of the time, I can pinpoint specific causes of my anxiety. I get anxious about asking my boss for time off.…
We hear the term “mental breakdown”, “nervous breakdown (which generally isn’t used anymore)”, and “emotional breakdown” quite often in the mental health world. For the purpose of this post, I am defining an emotional breakdown as a period of time when an emotion that’s been ignored/ not processed slams into…
Trigger Warning: Self-Injury/Self-Harm I missed the memo that March 1st was Self-Injury Awareness Day, a day to provide education and eliminate the stigma around self-harm/self-injury, so forgive me for being late. As many as 2 million people engage in self-harming behavior. Sometimes it’s to deal with emotions, to feel something…
Tax time is a cause for stress and anxiety for so many people. When you also have an anxiety disorder, it can make those feelings 10x worse. A decade ago I would put off doing my taxes until the last possible moment and then I’d spend the next month in…
If you’ve read my Anxiety Workbook then you know that I’ve been anxious since I was a little human. Last week I talked about how my anxiety about returning to work after two months off was pretty high. I was nauseous the whole week leading up to it and whenever…
I’ve been off work from my retail job since December (to care for my wife after her back surgery) and I’m set to go back to work tomorrow. ? (Don’t forget to check out my workbook on anxiety!) The anxiety is unreal. I was trying to find an anxiety chart…
Last year, I posted this and it details how my anxiety manifests itself in outwardly “positive” ways. I’m super punctual because I get terrible stomach cramps when I’m late. I’m a really hard worker because god forbid I ever make a mistake because then it’s the end of the world,…
Let’s talk about mental health! 1 out of 5 adults in the country has experienced mental illness in their lifetime and the pandemic isn’t helping. People with substance use disorder are struggling. People with social anxiety are fearing how they’ll cope when the world returns to “normal” because we’ve gotten…
When we think about PTSD we often think about military veterans and the impact that combat/service has on their mental health. And it does, because they estimate that 20% -30% of deployed and non-deployed soldiers will develop PTSD. But there are also broader definitions. You can have PTSD from going…
I did a bad thing. I read the comments and everyone knows you NEVER read the comments! ? A few days ago one of my quotes made it onto Wordporn and I read the comments. The quote was “Don’t use rest or self-care as a reward for being productive. If…
