Impostor Syndrome

It’s strange, how someone can feel like they are lying to the world about something they believe. A lot of professionals get this feeling, especially creative types. That feeling that you’ve tricked the world into believing this elaborate lie you’ve created, and that eventually someone will…

Mental Overload

WARNING: This post deals with sexually explicit materials and situations.

Living with Bi-Polar disorder is… interesting, at the best of times, and absolutely horrid at the worst. Everything can be totally fine, and then for…

Muddy Waters

Depression is a weird thing. It can be a feeling of overwhelming sadness, it can be utter…

Before and After: What could have been

Finding out that your brain stopped working right at some point in your life is an odd feeling, especially since there’s really no way of knowing exactly when that was. When did my mind start short-circuiting, causing me to lash out or sink into depression? Was…

The Little Things

There are a lot of studies these days that say human beings are more stressed now than they have ever been before. While I don’t know how much stock I can put in that personally (How do you even measure the stress of the dead? Did science start employing mediums or something?), it doesn’t take a…

Broken Slang

Trying to speak candidly about my condition with people has been… interesting. If I say something too upfront, like “Man, I’ve had a really hard time of it lately, this depression is really kicking my ass,” then people automatically assume that I need immediate help. That’s not always the case, though I…

Duality of Society

For those of us living with mental illness, whether we know it or not, life gets an added layer of complexity as we try to cope with our symptoms and lead the kind of lives we want to live. Meanwhile, we’re given a constant barrage of coping mechanisms and instructions that seem to contradict…

Describing the Abyss

I was on Facebook earlier, when I came across a series of images drawn by the artist Zenophrenic (check out their work, all of it is really trippy). This series in particular showed a person coming to terms with all of the negative issues that come with mental illness with the help of some…