Posts related to Mental Health and Mental Health Awareness.
Peer pressure is real and there is nothing worse than a room full of teenagers with one or more bullies leading the way. I have written before about being bullied as a student at Elkview Jr. High School (now Elkview Middle) and the lasting effects this has had on my mental stability. Coupled with the …
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Experts say that everyone will experience anxiety at some point in their life – this is normal human behavior. Now with the two-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic approaching, doctors are bracing for the inevitable fallout; the mental health crisis. The past two years have been challenging indeed for everyone. However, trying to find …
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Steeming from the traumatic event during my childhood, I have struggled with various different aspects of poor mental health nearly my entire life. With depression and anxiety being my most prominent mental health issue, I also battle daily with a fear of rejection. I sometimes feel unwelcome while in a work meeting. Of course, this …
Continuing on my series titled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, here is part two where we will dig in to find out, “Did Mary know?”. If you have not yet read part one, I encourage you to check it out first. Can you imagine a world without Christmas? Can you imagine a world without Jesus? …
The words, “but God”, appear in the King James Version translation of the bible 43 times. In other translations, you may find more or fewer occurrences. These two words remind us that we have this hope in God when the trouble surrounding us is too great. Throughout the Bible, you will find numerous occurrences where …
About 5 years ago I made one of the best decisions I could have made for my mental health. That decision was to make the best effort I could to avoid any and all conflicts in social media. This meant no more posts which could potentially get a rise from someone from me and of …
Does anyone know when we stopped showing kindness to others? I mean when was the last time you heard someone in a grocery store checkout lane be thankful to the clerk? Or even simply talking to the clerk? In my previous post, where I wrote about how my mental health issues started, I clichéd that …
A poor life choice ultimately led to my separation anxiety and my fear of abandonment; the cusp of my depression. This blog has been in my drafts for several months now. I revisit it from time to time with hopes of toning down the tense nature a little. Over the Christmas holiday this year, I …
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If someone were to tell you that the greatest story ever told was divined over 8000 years ago, would you believe me? As we approach Christmas, I wanted to write about Christ’s birth. But first, let’s look back at the beginning of us. “In the beginning, God created…” These five simple words were just the …
Is it just me or has 2021 flown by? Doesn’t it seem like only yesterday we were all very thankful to see 11:59 PM on December 31, 2020? With the vaccine for COVID-19 having received emergency FDA authorization in December 2020, there was hope that 2021 would be more tolerable. Before I knew it, both …