Trigger Warning: As indicated by the title, this post discusses suicide. Not graphically, and not in detail, but if the topic is especially triggering to you, you may want to make the choice ...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/world-suicide-prevention-day-2018/
There’s things I’ve done I can’t erase Every night we fall from grace It’s hard, with the world in your face Try to hold on, try to hold on. . . ~ Bon Jovi, ‘Keep the Faith’ I be...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/keep-the-faith/
A friend told me of an article she saw that said the 2016 election has been bad for peoples’ mental health. I remembered seeing something like that in my Facebook news feed. My first respon...
Dont fall down now You will never get up Dont fall down now. . . ~ Everclear, ‘Strawberry ‘ My problem is I always get up. That may cause some cognitive dissonance on the part of the rea...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/ten-years-gone/
Trigger Warning: As indicated by the title, this post discusses suicide. Not graphically, and not in detail, but if you find the topic triggering you may choose not to read this post. Sui...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/world-suicide-prevention-day-2016/
Got this in the mail today: You will not receive ODSP income support and other benefits now that your file is on hold. Let me repeat that: You. will. not. receive. ODSP. income. support. now th...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/the-trouble-with-high-functioning-anything/
I have a tinnitus. But of course, it is me so it isn’t as simple as that. Mine is bilateral, which is not all that uncommon. But what I hear on one ear is not the same as what I hear on the oth...
And as luck would have it, my mental health took a disastrous hit this month so I am late in writing about it. Better late than never, I suppose. Besides, it is still the last of May as I type, s...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/may-is-mental-health-month/
After a very emotional week, I am happy to report that today (last night, really) was the first nightmare-free night in what felt like the first time in forever. I feel like breaking up in song l...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/dont-mind-me-if-i-do/
When you have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, life is one hell of a ride. But that doesn’t say much, does it, now? There’s hell of a ride and then there’s hell of a ride. The one I’m talk...
https://acanvasoftheminds.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/my-life-as-a-russian-roulette/