depression

The Importance of Speaking About Your Mental Health, When You Are Struggling to Cope

woman looking depressed

  Your mental health is really important to your general well-being, so understanding how it works and why you should look after it is very important. Luckily now though, as a topic of conversation in 2021, it is far easier to acknowledge and speak about your mental wellbeing and how you feel thoroughly depressed.  With

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Breathing Techniques to Help Anxiety

woman blowing on dandelion wishes

  Anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults in the United States. Although they’re treatable, only 37 percent of those suffering receive treatment, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.   Anxiety comes with many physical symptoms, including chest pain, dizziness, and brain fog. A panic attack or anxiety episode can be scary and

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Looking for an Exit

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This is the first I have really written in a while. I have basically had a nervous breakdown and have spent the better part of a month trying to recover myself. Trying to find myself amongst the panic and the tears. Trying to make it through the nausea and the disconnection. Trying to survive from

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Bashful Smile

collage created by Evelyn Dortch

Could this child be a relative, maybe a distant cousin with those blonde eyelashes like mine and that nose that looks like my son’s?  I don’t recollect any family in the Scott’s Run area but sometimes families traveled when a mine closed.

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