Category: General
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Major Depressive Disorder
Opening: What It Is, What It Feels Like, and What It Looked Like for Me Over the last few weeks, I’ve been writing about diagnoses that still affect my everyday life. However, I want to take time to discuss Major Depressive Disorder. I had said that it doesn’t affect me daily anymore—but that’s not necessarily…
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My Six-Month Sober Blackout
Brain Fog, Widow Brain, and Additional Info On What Trauma Does to a Brain After the last couple weeks of blogs discussing how the brain functions and how trauma affects it neurologically, I wanted to write about something a bit more specific before moving on to another topic as it was another thing that I…
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Understanding the Organ Behind the Struggle
How brain function shapes behavior and why it’s so important to understand For as long as humans have existed, mental health struggles have existed. What is new is not the struggle — it is our understanding. Only in more recent decades have we begun to study the brain in depth and understand how trauma, chronic…
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