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Category Archives: existential depression
New year, new clarity, new goal
In the year 2014, I’m going to continue to express from the heart while refining my writing. I wanted to share my new “about this blog” page here. It was written originally as a response to a blog post over … Continue reading
Posted in A Lamp In the Darkness, adult survivors of abuse, Art, Being Genuine, Compassion, Complex-PTSD, Congruent Living, Connection, Creating a Life, Death, Enlightenment, existential depression, Friendship, Healing Through the Arts, Highly Sensitive Person, Hope, Making meaning
Tagged Art, Awareness, Consciousness, Creativity, Journey, Mark Twain, Meditation, Nietzsche, Osho, PTSD, Spirituality
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The myth of mental illness
I read up a lot about mental illness, mostly because most of my life I was feeling like I was on the verge of going crazy. Except, I could never quite go completely over the abyss, which I often thought … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, anxiety, Complex-PTSD, depression, existential depression, Madness, Moods, Motherhood, The Myth of Mental Illness
Tagged Kazmirez Dabrowski, Madness, R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz
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Can we use our anxiety for our spiritual development?
For the past few years, I’ve been on a spiritual journey that I never planned on taking. It’s been something that just had to happen, after leaving the STEM field and coming home to be a stay at home mother … Continue reading