Category Mental Health

Depression Lies

The first rule of mental health is to learn that depression lies. Depression clouds your mind and rains down insults like a never-ending storm. And it lies like a rug. But, more than that, it lies like a sadistic sociopath whose only job is to constantly gaslight you into believing that you are worthless. And… Continue reading

Finding the Beauty

Finding the beauty in ourselves is not an ability that comes naturally to everyone. Since Dove’s Real Beauty Sketches video came out, I have read several takes on the message Dove was attempting to share. There were a number of the blogs being negative, basically telling Dove, “Nice try, but not enough.” They felt that there wasn’t… Continue reading

The Shame of Depression

The shame of depression is so overwhelming that it truly makes the experience so much worse. I know… keeping silent for my entire life and hiding everything from my family wasn’t one of my best choices. I was in my late teens (1987 or 1988) and had already tried to commit suicide at least twice… Continue reading