I Didn't Realize How Not Being a 'Gifted Child' Traumatized Me, Until I Watched 'Abbott Elementary'

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more than 90% of those with a mental health condition, so there is a clear correlation.Many people think that fatigue is a cause of depression, but that isn’t accurate. However, depression causes a severe drop in your energy levels for seemingly no reason. The other signs of depression worsen fatigue and irritability, causing it to interfere with every area of your life.

I’ve always had digestive problems. When I was a kid, I would vomit over practically nothing. We always chalked it up to sensitive digestion, and never really pressed the issue. These issues got progressively worse as I grew older. About five years ago, I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). Simplified, this means that my connective tissue acts more like chewed bubblegum instead of elastic, so a lot of my body’s systems don’t quite work how they should. It wasn’t until I received this diagnosis that my doctors began to suspect that my digestion problems were caused by something else.

A close friend asked the other day how I think my trauma has contributed to the variety of mental illnesses I live with. It got me thinking that not only did trauma contribute to my mental health issues, but because it started so young, it, in fact, changed my entire childhood development and personality. I never had a chance to develop properly, because, for me, there simply was never a time I wasn’t traumatized.

When I was 16 years old I nearly lost my life from a climbing accident at the top of a mountain. When I was in my early 20s and my mental illnesses started to manifest I began thinking of ending my life, which developed in my mid 30s to actually come up with a plan. While I have managed to stay in control of these thoughts and urges despite a great toll, they are still present as recently as last year in response to much aching loss, and even as recently as two days ago. This time what helped me was thinking about how I bravely and buoyantly fought for my life when I was 16. I imagined what that 16-year-old boy would say to me now and that was clearly to fight to live.

Character Lives, gossiping is human nature. Doesn’t everyone like a little juicy tidbit now and again? However, the report states that gossip tears people down degrades your character, and may ruin your reputation.When you’re part of a team, everybody does their part to ensure success. Your skills and experience benefit you even more, when you share them with others.

forego making resolutions or goals and instead make a vision board that also included some key phrases. Instead of setting lofty goals for myself that I would most likely eventually give up on (and then be disappointed in myself), I made it a point to just focus on how I wanted to feel this year.

make time for those important to you. Take a moment out of your busy day to listen and truly hear and understand what these little ones say to you.If you brush them off in haste, they will think that’s an acceptable way to communicate. There’s nothing more important than your kids, so give them a little bit of your time.

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soluble fiber. This type is the kind you dissolve in water and drink.It helps you slow down the digestive process and assists in getting rid of the bad cholesterol in your body. Insoluble fiber is the one that keeps things flowing nicely through your colon and bowels.

I had a “Woo-hoo” moment yesterday when opening an email that stated I no longer had to obtain a medical provider certification to renew my medication card. I thought “Yes! I don’t have to have this hassle (and expense) every couple of years.”

In the early summer of 2019, I had finally gotten to the hardest part of my EMDR therapy. For months, I had been working with a therapist to build up to the event of my forcible rape at age 16. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), essentially neurobiologically rewiring your brain’s reaction to a traumatic memory. But in patients with complex or compounded traumas, EMDR can also unearth and trigger memories of other events. That risk was high with me. Before my grooming and sexual abuse at the hands of my debate coach started, I had lived an incredibly unstable, traumatic, poverty-stricken life at home. In order to protect against being overwhelmed by a potential tidal wave of other trauma, my therapist and I worked up to the bigger event gradually. We established a safe place for me to ground myself in mentally and started with the smaller events that had led up to the rape.