Don't Let Your Mind Bully You
For many of us who know what it's like to deal with severe stress, anxiety or even depression and suicidal thoughts, it may seem that everything roots from an external trigger. Personally, for me, this has never been the case. For most of the phases in my life when such thoughts were overpowering, it really was my mind trying to put a negative filter onto everything it saw as potentially detrimental to my self-worth. Last few months in these trying times have been no exception. Oh no, I'm not psychotic! Or maybe I am, so what? We all are to a certain degree. The question is definitely not whether you're crazy, cause your crazy might be someone's normal (you see how problematic that word itself is). The real deal here is how you go about fighting a tormentor with no face, no real existence (as many would say), but inflicting ever so concrete wounds on you again and again. When my acne worsened, no-one, absolutely no-one (I haven't been out of my house since mid-Mar...