My 5-Year-Old Self – Here are 3 Things I would Tell Her
Trigger warning: mention of abuse and suicide. When I was five years old, I lived with my parents and my sister in a suburb of a Northern German town. My parents owned a restaurant...
Category: Mental Health
Reaching Out – Why My Support System is Tiny
I think I am a hypocrite. I always tell people that it is important to reach out, that they need to expand their support system and that they need to take that leap of...
Masturbation is Self-Care
You hear and read it everywhere. People are sharing their experiences from retreats and work-shops. Yoga weekends, mindfulness classes and spa weeks. That all sounds fancy pancy and is probably great for those who...
Medicalisation of Society – Trauma
This is an older post on mental health that I have written on another blog of mine. You can find the original post from April 2018 here. Different times in history have had a...
Dissociative Identity Disorder and Relationships – It’s Complicated!
I wasn’t sure if I should write this post because, well, it is complicated. I feel like with most of what I write, people can still find points they can relate to or are...
Self-Invalidation: When your own feelings don’t matter to yourself
Validating someone’s feelings is not a difficult task to do. It is about acknowledging their emotions and showing an understanding for their current emotional state. It doesn’t mean that how they express those feelings...
My Mental Illness Makes My Sexlife Better
I think for most readers of this blog, it has become quite apparent that my mental health issues have a huge impact on my life. And unfortunately, that impact is not exactly positive. I...
Triggers – Going Down To Trigger Town
The word trigger is overused these days. And because of that, most people don’t take it seriously when someone legitimately expresses that they have been triggered. Instead of its original meaning, which is being...
Trauma Ruins Your Body Just As Much As It Ruins Your Mind
I wanted to write a post about perfectionism and imposter syndrome (which I periodically struggle with) but decided to write about a topic that has been spooking in my mind for quite some time,...
“Crazy Fucks Best!” – Making The Mentally Ill Seem Sexually Deviant And Inferior
Let me start this off by saying that I dislike when people use the term “crazy” to describe someone. It is a derogatory way of saying that someone is mentally ill. But the mental...
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