Category: Mental Health
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The Link Between Stress and Autoimmunity
They say that there is a link between the brain and the heart or a link between your breakouts and your stomach. Well, there is a link between your stress and symptoms of autoimmunity. This is something that is highly overlooked. I did a lot of research since my diagnoses of fibromyalgia and it says…
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Fighting Loneliness That Comes with Mental Health as A Woman of Color
It is much deeper when you are a woman; an unapologetically black woman. I have always fought the battle of loneliness and isolation. In the same breathe, I still love seeing the outside world. I love seeing the beauty of nature and traveling to different places. This didn’t change when I got my diagnosis beginning…
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A typical, not-so typical day with anxiety and social anxiety
There is that ping in my neck again. The one you feel during stressful situations or when you think something is going to happen. When you head out for the day, that tunnel vision kicks in and you walk in such a straight line because that is all you can see. You feel as though…
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Don’t Look at Me Strange When I Say I have Fibromyalgia
Before 2015, I though the tightness and dull pain was normal. Normal for the majority of my existence. I never would have thought it was a form of Fibromyalgia. What is Fibromyalgia anyway? It is a unique illness of widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by fatigue, sleep, memory and mood issues. This explains for of what…
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Empath in Today’s World
It is really hard to be an empath in today’s world. I’ve been the individual that feels way too much especially for others. There have been a lot of things that have been said to me all my life. “You take things too personally” “Why are you so sensitive?” As someone who is an empathetic…