The best defense is a good offense, or is it?
Dee Chan’s Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) always made the world feel like a very scary place. So when it came to relationships, she would self-protect with a “get them before they get you” mentality. She realized that if she wanted healthy relationships, she had to learn how to handle disappointment.
How I came to suffer with anxiety
Irving Schattner shares his story of growing up with parents who were holocaust survivors and who sent mixed messages born out of their own fears of abandonment and needing to keep the family together at all costs. Irving learned to survive by operating in a constant state of worry, where most of his time was consumed in fear-based thoughts and emotions.
Breaking free from depression
Tanya gives a detailed account of her experience combating depression and gaining freedom.
Opening up about OCD and an eating disorder
Katy Moyes is diagnosed with OCD and anxiety at a young age. Later in life, her OCD fixates on food and she develops an eating disorder. She longs to talk to someone about what’s going on and finds private therapy is her answer.
My trip through the black hole of anxiety
“I’ve often referred to my anxiety as being like a black hole, one that lurks deep within your mind. You’ll have something that you need to say or do and no amount of will power in the world can get it across the boundary of being a thought to being an action. Instead, the anxiety black hole just spins it around and around in your head so that all the thoughts play over and over again. You quite quickly lose sight of when you should say/do something and when you shouldn’t.” ~ Cameron Madden