As I reluctantly looked in the mirror in my college bathroom, I would glance at the toilet and back to the mirror, then back to the toilet, and then back to the mirror, as I pulled my long blonde hair back into a ponytail. Hurry up! Stick your fingers in your mouth! You’re fat! YouContinue reading “How my eating disorder fed off my Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) (part 1).”
Category Archives: Mental Health
The Pandemic and My Hurt Tooth
This Pandemic has been all over the news and I have been having some anxiety. One of the ways that I deal with anxiety is I clinch and grind my teeth at night. On the 22 of March, I bit into my night guard hard. It hurt and I had a concern that I hadContinue reading “The Pandemic and My Hurt Tooth”
Top five songs that help me stay strong
When I get anxious or depressed, I put on songs that are encouraging and empowering. Here are five suggestions from my personal playlist. I hope you like them. One Republic-I Lived I like this song because it reminds me to keep going and to enjoy life. Even though life is full of successes and pitContinue reading “Top five songs that help me stay strong”
My Mental Health Journey: Let’s talk about Depression
I remember going through Depression after my mother died by the time my senior year of high school came around, I began to feel better. However, when I entered college, I started to get wave after wave of depression to happiness back to depression. I didn’t know that I was experiencing a specific kind ofContinue reading “My Mental Health Journey: Let’s talk about Depression”
My Mental health journey: Let’s talk about Anxiety
Anxiety is a condition that I didn’t want to admit that I had. In fact, I didn’t know that I had anxiety until I started talking about my symptoms with my therapist during my first therapy session. According to The Centre for Clinical Interventions worksheet What is Anxiety?, “The experience of anxiety is very similarContinue reading “My Mental health journey: Let’s talk about Anxiety”
The No White Food Diet
During my first therapy appointment one of the main recommendations my therapist suggested was a change of diet. She told me about a diet called, “The no white food diet.” This diet is simple. You do not eat white food. Examples of this are white bread, white pasta, potatoes, candy, soda, etc. I would takeContinue reading “The No White Food Diet”
2019: More Movement, Patience, and Positivity-July Edition
July moved so quickly, and soon we will be in August. That means that half of the year has come and gone. Where has the time gone? Movement has really hit me this month. Have you ever found yourself complaining about completing a task? I have. I have learned that it is easier to completeContinue reading “2019: More Movement, Patience, and Positivity-July Edition”
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