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...
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
Agoraphobia – Voluntary Imprisonment
Many of my previous posts on mental health and mental illness might have indicated that I have a slight problem with anxiety. Okay, okay. I have a major problem with anxiety! I have several...
A Near Miss
It is a little bit odd how most of my posts the last few days have been about my struggles, my past, my mental illness and my emotional pain. I don’t necessarily love writing...
My “Father”
I know what an ideal father is supposed to be like. I have friends who have very supportive father figures in their lives. Men who have always stood up for them, who have protected...
PTSD Awareness and C-PTSD Acknowledgment
It is quite a confusing fact that many people in the kink community, both on the D/s and fetish side, have a history of trauma and abuse in their past. I usually don’t like...
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