Tag: Depression
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Top 5 Alternative Methods for Treating Depression and Warding Off Mental Illness
When most of us experience depression, our doctor’s rush to prescribe us an anti-depressant (Usually, an SSRI). While antidepressants can be great at helping us when we’re in crisis, it’s important to know that their efficacy tends to wane over time. Many antidepressants also have their fair share of side-effects that make weighing the cost/benefits…
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Mental Health & Healing: Happiness as a Habit
For far too many of us, we view happiness as an ellusive emotional state rather than a conscious choice. The positive benefits of inducing and enjoying a happy internal state plays a vital role in maintaining mental health. As someone who has struggled with mental illness for 2 decades now, I’ve learned how to take…
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My Journey From Bipolar Disorder to Bipolar INorder
I started this blog to help others who struggle with mental illness to have a friend in the fight and ample resources to cope, manage, and heal. With the right resources, it’s possible to go from disorder to INorder.
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5150: Being Hospitalized For Homicidal Ideations
In today’s post, I will be sharing one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had. In the past, I’ve be severely depressed multiple times. So depressed that I struggled with intense suicidal ideations. In relation to what I will be sharing today, being severely depressed was more tolerable than my experience being hospitalized for homicidal…
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My Black Box Experience: I Wanted to Die and Only God Could Stop Me
In this post I will be sharing a personal experience that’s challenging for me to talk about. As I promised in my first post, I will do my best to bring something authentic, transparent, and vulnerable to you. This requires me to share the great, good, bad, and ugly of my experience. In an effort…
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High Functioning Creatives That Have Turned Their Mental Illness Into a Superpower
In today’s post, I’m happy to share some of the high-functioning creatives that have turned their mental illness into superpowers. I’m certain these people will inspire you too!
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Inversion Thinking (Part 1): When Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough… Do This Instead!
Here in America, it’s easy to get caught up in the malaise of pop-culture psychology that inundates us with catchy cliche’s and “postitive vibe” mysticism in place of the deep therapy many of us need. In our culture, it’s common to over-simplify complex issues. Especially, the ones related to our mental health, and it makes…
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I Think, Therefore I Write. You Read, Therefore I Think.
I’m a bi-polar creative in storybook fashion; with far too many ideas for one head. When I’m manic, you may encounter a creative genius who helps you stretch the horizons of what’s possible by expanding the boundaries of what’s known. When I’m depressed, you may encounter a broken man helplessly bleeding on this keyboard just…
Daniel Fortune 