Category: Personal Stories
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It’s Been 5 (Long) Years!
I Didn’t Think I Would Survive — But I Did I didn’t hit rock bottom the way people think. There wasn’t just one moment.It was a series of them—stacked so close together that I stopped believing I was going to make it out at all. At one point, I truly believed I was going to…
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The Reality of Triggers
I Thought I Was “Past It” — Until I Wasn’t We have been talking about triggers a lot over the last few weeks, but we haven’t really talked about what that actually means. When people hear the word trigger, they often picture something dramatic.A panic attack. A breakdown. A visible reaction that makes it obvious…
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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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