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30 Minutes of Mental Health Training
Does not equip you to diagnose me with mental health issues. However, this is much education medical professionals get on Mental Health. 30 minutes. There was an article recently that said starting in 2027 doctors would go from 2 years to 3 years of training, so they would be better equipt to deal with addictions,…
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Mental Health Is a Step By Step Journey
I’ve been struggling deeply with my mental health. For decades I lived in a state of isolated denial, pretending that the memories I saw were just nightmares made up of no rhyme or reason. The truth is dark. You know this by now because you’ve been reading my work for seven years. My experience has…
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Survivor’s Guilt is Very Real and Debilitating
I survived. Rape. Torture. Branding. Ownership. Freedom. I have that last one now. I have my freedom. I am my own person, but beyond me as a singular individual, there is all the baggage that I carry with me. Anxiety, depression, PTSD, emotional struggles – all of these things are baggage that I carry with…
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What Would You Do? My Response to #BreneBrown, to Falestine from Canada #CdnPoli
Yesterday I saw an image of a child, beautiful and smiling in one photo, covered in dust so dark she looked Black in the next…because Israel had killed her. I wonder often, without saying it out loud, what I’d have done during the days of old when Nazis were the ruling class and everyone else…
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Survivor’s Connection 3
I am excited to announce that I am ready for the next healing phase. From the get-go I wanted Loud Mouth Brown Girl to inspire women – especially disabled, non-binary, women of color, – to believe that even during struggles with mental health you can build a meaningful life. For six or seven years now…
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It Means Learning To Harness Your Power
On the day I had my *major* panic attack in Winnipeg on the plane, I was absolutely terrified. I didn’t know what I was coming home to, but I knew I didn’t want to come home. I had every right to be afraid. I wasn’t terrified of my abusers, they’d already done their worst to…
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Stop Insulting Yourself, Silly Girl
That’s right. From now on, you’re only allowed to say good things about yourself. I caught myself in the mirror in the elevator coming back upstairs from a smoke. I was about to say “I look so fat and ugly,” I hate my broken teeth. I hate that I’m overweight and that I am not…
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The Princess and the Pea
There once was a story about a girl who in the cold shivering night, showed up at a castle looking for a place to live. The mother of the prince was very excited because perhaps this would become his future wife, thus turning the prince into a King. But first a test. The best of…
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Mental Health Patients And Our Responsibilities
I have a responsibility to take my medication every day. And so I do. I have a responsibility to reach out when I need help, which I do. These days I am more often left to my own devices, which is precisely why I am so overwhelmed by all the options I’ve been given in…
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In Times of Battle, We Gather
I am not a historian. So I can’t tell you precisely what it was that stopped the last world war or whether or not I think that pulling out of Afghanistan after twenty fucking years was a huge mistake, but what I can say is that war is fucking stupid. It sucks the life out…
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Buy Yourself Flowers
My mom loves fresh flowers and plants. I on the other hand can’t keep them alive to save my life, so I don’t really care to have them around. Mostly I forget that they are there, and need to be watered, and since I can’t keep a plant alive. I keep remembering that line in…
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I Don’t Know What To Say, So Let’s See What Comes Out
I live in a world where I have 0 complaints about my life. I am still on outpatient care, but twice now that’s been by my request because my doctor is so new to my case. I have a great group of friends who are there when I need them and give me space when…
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