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The Real Faces of Mental Illness: Mckella and Seasonal Affective Disorder

The Real Faces of Mental Illness is a monthly interview series from real people sharing their personal stories and experiences. I want to show people what it’s really like to have a mental illness and not hide behind medical terms and symptoms. I want to share what it’s like to live with these diseases, on […]

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Anxiety Disorder Response vs Normal Emotional Response

All the time, every week I see how much progress I am making. And it’s awesome. Lately, I’ve been trying to pay attnetion to my emotions and learn what is ‘normal’. I’ve been struggling with my depression and anxiety for such a long time, I don’t really know what a person with a normal baseline […]

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Looking Back to See How Far I’ve Come in My Mental Health Journey

Recently, I was looking through the drafts I have to see what to write about. I often write a few things, thoughts, meanderings, random websites or words and save it to maybe post it later. A lot of things end up in one post or another, sometimes they just sit there and don’t need to […]

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