Category: Depression
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Meet and Greet: Check Your Head Podcast
CHECK YOUR HEAD: Mental Help for Musicians Podcast and host Mari Fong has won a 2021 “People’s Choice” Podcast Award for “Best Asian Hosted Podcast.” Fong commented, “I’m especially proud to be in this category because it was my parents, my Chinese Father, and my Japanese Mother, who instilled in me a strong work ethic,…
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Split Milk: Un-Motivated
My mom said something about split milk. God bless my mom and her typos. She meant spilled milk but the split milk sounded kind of like it could be a thing. Also, if I don’t take a shower, I’m going to smell like sour milk and that is kind of gross. Depression is a sneaky…
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Dealing with Grief and Relief
What happens when your abuser dies unexpectedly? I don’t have answers for what should happen next. What’s right or wrong? No idea. If you’re like me, you will feel relieved. It’s a strange feeling which leads to other feelings – mostly guilt and sadness. I can’t say that I’m sad about his passing. I’m…
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Driving Maybe. Sinking Definitely
I shouldn’t tell you. It’s too much information maybe. I feel like I’m sinking into a murky abyss. Nothing is going right and it affects everyone around me. I’m sinking and dragging everyone down. I hit a telephone pole. Everyone is fine. The telephone pole is still standing At some point, I will have to…
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Am I Going to Lose My Way Too?
As a writer, I lump myself into the category with confessional poets, like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Plath and Sexton both committed suicide. As a regular person, I lump myself into the category with other friends that have mental health issues. Mentally and emotionally, we have all lost our way at some point. Some…
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Mz. Understood: #NaBloPoMo
Tell us about a time when you were deeply misunderstood. How did you fix the situation? After I had my first kid, I had some major issues with Postpartum Depression. I didn’t understand all of those feelings myself. Boom! One day, I had a kid and every feeling was exposed for the whole world to see.…
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Depression: It’s a Real Thing
Who really thinks depression is fake? Whoever you are, you are mistaken. Depression is as real as any sickness. There are just fewer outward signs. There’s hardly any vomiting. It’s a struggle every day to keep the depression at bay. Every day. Lately, I don’t feel much like getting out of bed. I’m not sure…
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