My Dissociative Identity Disorder
Trigger warning: Talk of d*ssociation, ab*use, tra*ma I have written about my Dissociative Identity Disorder before, but mostly in connection to my relationship and my sex life. The topic for this week on Sex...
Tagged: mental illness
Mission Lady Mode – My Kind of Motivation
Motivation is a fleeting feeling when you struggle with mental health issues, and you don’t have a lot of responsibilities in the form of work or children. What gets you out of bed in...
Talking about Mental Health
Ever since I was unable to push away my struggles anymore, I wrote about mental health and mental illness. But for most of the times, I was talking about mental health, not about me....
My Mental Illness 2019 – A Reflection
I write quite a lot about mental health and mental illness on my blog. So much indeed, that I sometimes feel the need to hold back a little so this space remain primarily a...
Depression – Being stuck in quicksand with your hands tied behind your back
This overwhelming feeling of hopelessness. Nothing matters, nothing will ever change. This weight that pulls me down, keeps me down. This dead fire inside me that I feel will never burn again. This darkness...
Mental Illness and Dating – You are lovable
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend the other day. We were talking about mental illness and getting laid, or getting into relationships. They were asking me how I managed to get...
Mental Health and Mental Illness are not the Same Thing
I have an issue. Okay, I have many issues but I’ll get to that later. I have a problem with how people use the terms mental health and mental illness interchangeably. And I am...
#metoo? – I am a survivor but feel excluded
Trigger Warning: This post discusses sexual violence, rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. I am a survivor of sexual assault and rape. It took me years to even recognize that this is a fact....
Recovery From Mental Illness? – Healing, Self-Management and Improvement of Quality of Life
Let me start with that I don’t believe in that recovery is something to work towards when you struggle with mental illness. Recovery, for me, would mean getting to a place of where you...
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...
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