Category: Anxiety
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Despair 2

The thing about depression is that it’s not something you can just stop feeling or even explain why you’re feeling it. It’s not like you can say snap out of it, you have too much going for you that you shouldn’t be depressed. It’s a weight that you feel deep in your core that robs…
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Christmas Eve meltdown

Christmas Eve was also my husband’s grandma’s birthday. Starting with Thanksgiving, we are on nonstop holiday gatherings and birthday celebrations. There are 10 birthdays of just family members, including mine, in December. I know birthdays are great celebrations but I was not really feeling like it this year. Not to mention tensions were high from…
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8/3/2021 Outpatient Rehab

It was my first day in outpatient rehab. This is where stroke survivors go after completing inpatient rehab. However the rehab place I was going to was a inpatient facility. I just happened to be their only outpatient client. That had its own challenges. For instance, I didn’t have a rehab doctor and had to…