Trauma

What I feel with my depressed mind. In my previous blog, I talked about my depression and how it feels to live with a depressed mind. In this blog, I’m going to share further things. Headache has become part of my life, I can’t remember the last time my head…

I was seventeen when my Mom died. She was only forty, but her body was already decrepit. She lived in emotional and physical agony for the last 3,650 days of her life. Over the last couple of years, she lost her teeth and lived on room-temperature noodle soup, the only…

Diary Entries of a Traumatized Girl — November 18, 2022 The world feels different today. I woke up and for a split second, I forgot that my dad was gone. It’s been days since he passed away, and I thought I was getting used to it. But it hits me again and again, the realization that he’s not coming back. …

The Good, the bad, and the ugly. — The Bad/Ugly: Divorce, Trauma, Trust, Employment When my husband abandoned me at Christmastime last year, I couldn’t comprehend then how my life would change. Three months out, I have a better picture of what life after marital abandonment looks like. Divorce I got served divorce papers three days after Christmas. You can read all about that…

I don’t intend to waste your precious time, so if you came here to seek the solution for depression or some cure that can help you overcome your depression then, I’ll suggest don’t read this blog. This one has no answers to anything. This is just me sharing how I…

I’m listening to a song I always listened to when I was in junior high school, as I write this. It’s Older by Sasha Alex Sloan. I haven’t listened to this song in quite a long time because in 2020, I chose to forget everything in my past. I listen…

When we experience a traumatic or a painful event, our natural instinct is to forget about it so as to protect ourselves from the painful memories associated with the event. The emotional toll carried by such an event can be so overwhelming that one chooses to avoid anything that reminds…