During the 2018 World Cup, my darling wife Bernice reminded me that it has been 20 years since my struggle with clinical depression. The 1998 World Cup was in full swing then, played to the tunes of...
Anxiety and depression. This article will contain pictures of pages from my journal, entries from earlier this year. I have journaled since I was a child. I journal not to capture a forever snapshot...
I was diagnosed with psychotic depression eight months after I became a Christian. As a young Christian then, it was a confusing and devastating season. The diagnosis came when I had just started...
My name is Fidelia. I’m 25 โ andย Iโm a cancer survivor. I was an ordinary child growing up as a third-generation Christian. Grandma would bring me to Sunday School, which was where I...
My journey with God started in 2007: A six-year-old child, eyes squeezed shut and chubby hands clasped together in prayer as I sat with my kindergarten friends around a table, reciting grace before...
I found it hard to admit that I had been emotionally wounded yet again. I could not accept that my depression had relapsed, and here I was, reliving my darkest nightmare just four years after my...
I was 13 when I first started cutting myself. Something just rang in my head that inflicting pain on myself would help me to relieve stress and be happy. I was a sensitive kid and had frequent mood...
I donโt like to talk about my weaknesses, and not many people know this, but I get anxiety attacks every now and then. They happen especially when something is stressing me out and I focus on it...
Recently, I learned just how deep a self-dug rabbit hole could go. I was knocked down by disappointments and hurts that just came wave after wave, beating and eroding the shoreline that was my mind....