humanity
Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.
Cloudless Night
I never expected myself to ever be capable of saving a life. I tread through the suburban forest, mud slapping against my rain boots on my way back from Powaonhook Beach. More of a dirty mixture of mud, sand and the occasional raccoon rummaging for food scraps than a beach; nevertheless, this is where I went to lay down on a picnic table and open my eyes to catch all the lights sprinkled across the sky.
Mike HanniganPublished 6 years ago in PsycheLGBTQ+ and... Paedophilia?
I recently read an Independent Article about self-proclaimed paedophile Todd Nickerson defending his right to paedophilic thoughts and comparing it to sexual orientation—which, as a gay man, deeply offended me and my love. I wanted to delve deeper into this topic and share some of my thoughts.
Richard ThoughtPublished 6 years ago in PsycheI Just Need to Let It All Out!
It has been a really bad few weeks. I just feel like the whole world is against me. Nothing is going my way and I feel like I can't cope. No one seems to understand how bad it is getting. I have no one I can really confide it, no one who is willing to give me that kind of attention. I know that sounds selfish, but sometimes that is what you need. Just someone to pay constant attention to you, to make you feel like you matter, and that you are wanted and loved. I mean, I am surrounded by people who love me, but I can't tell them what I'm really feeling. They just don't understand. I just feel like the whole world is passing by and I am in slow motion.
Crazy UnicornPublished 6 years ago in PsycheFat Shaming and Colorism
What I have begun to realize and even started to study since I have been in Haiti is the complexes which people face. I’ve realized that many Haitian people put unnatural amounts of thought into very old, American, ideals of beauty. What concerns me more is not what they are focused on, but why they are still focused on these clearly outdated ways of thinking. I’m not sure if it is lack of exposure to information that keeps these ideals running, but I have started to explain that things in the Western world are different. Not only am I comfortable with my body image and weight, but I am comfortable in my skin as well. I think part of the colorist complex comes from the notion that black is a dark color and not understood as a race or culture.
Alyssa ReneePublished 6 years ago in Psyche6-Year-Old Saves Depressed Teenage Babysitter from Suicide
Victri had moved from Nigeria to Canada before her eighteenth birthday, the first time leaving her parents. To pay her rent, she passionately babysits TITi, every other week.
bellover praysPublished 6 years ago in PsycheAfraid
Was I born wretched? Were we all born evil? Or were we born into evil? We are all of that and everything in between. We have the ability to be wretched, kind, amazing, evil. Damn. Thinking about it, I didn't realize how fucking terrible I would feel throughout my 23 years of living. You think it's all rainbows and sunshine? Here's a tip, it's NOT. Even when you conquer one obstacle, there's plenty more to follow. Sounds depressing, doesn't it? Well, it's depressing to try and completely be okay and joyous every single day and have life fuck you. You thought you were doing so well. You probably were doing well. Then you kind of just stop caring. I'm not saying being positive is a bad thing but you can't run from suffering—you CAN'T. I've been there, masking all of the things I was going through and I broke, man. It almost came to a point to where I wanted to end my life. I felt like a stuffed animal, with all of this repressed sadness and anger towards life. I was swallowing any outlet that I could find to feel better. I was in this dark, dark place so far deep I couldn't swim or move. Life is fucking crazy and its an every day battle and it's hard to accept it.
Nicolette HeislerPublished 6 years ago in PsycheSomewhere Between Certainty and Doubt
Belief is in our blood. We will kill for our ideals, ideologies, and belief systems. We naturally seek certainty and structure, yet we all grow weary of structure as time chugs along. We tend to doubt. We doubt our morals. We doubt our worth. We doubt our perception. Our fickle brains take sledgehammers to everything that we once believed to be true. Order descends into chaos as the dragon of doubt burns down the kingdom we have spent centuries constructing. Better things grow from that destruction. Flowers reach from the stone the very next spring, giving way to brand new ideas. Certainty and doubt should not be mutually exclusive, for they are both very necessary. Juxtaposing certainty and doubt creates extremes that will only destroy and leave us stagnant.
David Hawkins IIIPublished 6 years ago in PsycheHow Our Bodies Are Holding Us Back
Why is it we wonder, in an age that so glorifies the toil for perfection, how we've come to view our bodies through such a distorted lens? Our society praises those who strive, who suffer in the name of success, for the sake of admonishing those who settle- leaving us to question just who could dare to be seen as anything other than unattainable? As a collective, we've stripped ourselves of our humanity, layer by layer, in favour of growing a new skin: One of invincibility. We've come to associate being at our peak with being untouchable, but set it at too steep a climb for the majority to make- marking not only the expectation, but the demand that we reach the top, in a trembling flag at its summit.
The Daily MusePublished 6 years ago in PsycheWithout Emotion
Countless people around the world suffer from mental health issues on a daily basis. Some people can have better days, some can have worse. You could go on a three-year good streak and watch the world suddenly crash around you.
Stephi DurandPublished 6 years ago in PsycheBrain V/S Religion
In recent years, psychological well-being has been the concentration of exceptional research consideration. Psychological well-being lives within the experience of the person. It might be characterized as the condition of feeling sound and cheerful, having fulfillment, unwinding, joy, and genuine feelings of serenity. It manages individuals' emotions about ordinary encounters in life exercises. Such sentiments may extend from negative mental states or mental strains, for example, uneasiness, sorrow, trouble, disappointment, passionate weariness, misery, and disappointment, to a state which has been distinguished as positive psychological well-being. There is currently generous writing which exhibits beneficial outcomes of religious convictions on mental prosperity in addition to the negative effects. Psychological well-being is profoundly identified with the person's religious belief, which offers a rich source of material to consider the connection between different measurements of religious inclusion and different aspects of mental prosperity. This research essay focuses on the effects of the religious belief on different dimensions of the life of human beings. It provides findings of the studies done on positive and negative effects of religious belief from different academic sources to state that religion is one of the determinants of human health and well-being focusing on mental health and will ultimately lead to stating that religion is such a big force that affects physical, mental, social, and overall well-being of a person but the effects depends on the way we perceive it.
Anxiety In Relationships
Someone with anxiety, more often than not, carries old habits into a relationship. Here are some ways that your S/O may show their anxiety and how to reassure them:
Am I Crazy?
I've been admitted to the psychiatric ward of the hospital three times. You could call me crazy. You could say that I was in the "mad house" or "crazy ward". Maybe it's true, maybe I am crazy. Maybe there are some parts of the hospital that are for "crazy" people. But my experiences have been perfectly normal, and have taught me a lot about others.
Amanda DoylePublished 6 years ago in Psyche