Tag: mental illness
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Mental Illness And Misinformation
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What’s something most people don’t understand? It’s astounding how many people still completely misunderstand mental illness. Well, maybe not astounding because it’s hard for me to understand despite personally dealing with it for a large percentage of my life. But I guess what I’m referring to is the amount of people who believe mental illness…
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Creativity and Mental Health: How to Accept and Embrace Your Creative Mind
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Having a Creative Personality vs Being A Creative Person When you have a creative nature, you’re different from a creative-minded person, someone who seeks creative pursuits, and even different from someone who has a highly creative brain. Some people may seek ways to incorporate creative thinking into their lives or become more artistic, but when…
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Parenting With Mental Illness When Kids Are Sick With The Flu
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Mental illness rears its ugly head and swells larger with every hour of sleep I miss out on like a growing toy expanding in a bowl of water… Every parent struggles when their kids (and themselves) are sick. We know whatever one child is experiencing will soon spread like wildfire through siblings and eventually find…
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Failure Is A Key To Success
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Success is how well you’ve done with the potential within yourself. The potential for love, for honesty, for self-awareness, for growth, for forgiveness. Success is how well you’ve polished your soul and only failure and heartache can make you aware that it even needs cleaned.
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Hope in Mental Health Recovery
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Real hope for recovery from mental illness depends on realistic expectations and flexibility.
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10 Lessons of Advice For My Younger Self and Teens
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A Healthy Self-Esteem is the Foundation For Good Mental Health All the previous pieces of advice are predicated on having a healthy self-esteem–proud but humble. If we don’t have confidence in who we are we can’t…
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Stopping the OCD and Anxiety Spirals of Negative Thoughts
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“A fourth thought arrived. Then many more”–so begins the hell of the spiral down to a panic attack or at least misery. This quote is a perfect description of how the spiral of anxiety starts and morphs into full blown panic from a single thought. Oh, if only you could avoid the first worried thought…
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Why Do Adults Lose Their Imaginations?
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A post and a poem that examines using your imagination as an adult and attempts to answer the question: Do adults lose their imaginations?
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Metamorphosis A Poem About Butterflies and God’s Grace
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Metamorphosis A Poem About Butterflies and God’s GraceInching along the earthcrunching, munching on misfortuneuntil pain wrapped itself like a cocoon -a castle outside the rooms of a hardened heart.Drowning, surely dying in the dark.Only to emerge from the wombreborn from a tomb of self-inflicted woundstransformed by the Divine spark.With wings of vibrant colorcarrying the evidence…
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Monsters – Poem About Anxiety Disorder and Fear
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Monsters Poem about Anxiety Disorder and Fear Fear waits for me under the bed – a faceless monster made of shadow that slithers towards me in the darkness the moment my head hits the pillow. Devouring my dreams. Splitting the seams of sleep. Replacing yawns with racing thoughts. Justin Farley
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Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring
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Seasons of WinterPoem About SpringThe ice is melting,thawing away from the land,flowing back into the handsof its maker.Nature’s enchantment shatterswith a single kiss from springclinging to the warmthof renewal, rebirth, reawakening.And in each pile of snowthat dissolves my heart beatswith a disposition towards hopesledding down slopes of solacetaking comfort in the possibility to copewith my…
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Running Poem About Changing and Working on Yourself
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RunningCan I get a cup of wineto drown the time,to float away fromthis heavy heart of mine?Or perhaps a speedy carthat’ll take me fast so faraway from these expired dreamsnow void of stars?Maybe a boat to sail these seasthat swallow me with easeeach time the tide of my moodshelplessly carries me out with no reprieve?But…
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A Poem About Recovery Hope and Change
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No Matter No matter how hard it is to keep the fire burning, no matter how many disappointments have visited you without warning, no matter how many different trials you’ve sat through today, though the verdict may be hard to swallow, tomorrow, tomorrow’s another day. And it may seem impossible in this moment, but in…
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Poem About Gratitude, Having a Positive Attitude and Blessings
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No Quarter If I look, I’ll find 1000 complaints, but I’ve resolved to give no quarter to protest when I’ve been so blessed with gifts raining down from Heaven like manna. If I find my vision dull, dark, and gray it’s because I’ve chosen to stay blind to how lucky I truly am. Of course…
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A Guided Meditation for Panic and Anxiety Disorders with Hypochondria
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Meditation is often touted as a great solution for alleviating anxiety and stress. And it can be, but for those of us who have anxiety disorders, meditation and stillness runs counter-intuitive to our body’s natural desire to run and distract ourselves whenever we’re alone with our thoughts. I wanted to share something that has really…
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The Road to Recovery – A Poem by Justin Farley
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The Road to Recovery I tried walking away from madness, seeking peace. But found I was bound and a captive, unable to retreat. Astonished, I looked down at shackles clasped around my hands and feet. I have hollered until I was hoarse; solitude is the only company I keep. What is left now other than…
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Losing Myself Poem About Mental Illness and Recovery
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Losing Myself I’m losing myself in pieces –every year fragments of my soulfeel swept away by time. My identity constantly decreases,and I’m beginning to feel like a strangerwithin the confines of my own mind. Yes, I’m losing myself in pieces –the jigsaw puzzle’s lovely imagehas jumbled into an abstract mess. But my search for meaning…
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