Mental Health – Page 2 – Seeking My Balance

Big Fish

seekingmybalance December 5, 2018 Lies Our Parents Told Us, Mental Health, Relationships being human, failures, secrets, Stories, successes0 Comment

I have this friend who has always told stories that sound too big to be real. Big fish tales. I’ve told him that sometimes, I wonder if he is a pathological liar. But I’ve recognized that he has a big...

Simplex

seekingmybalance November 25, 2018 Friends, Mental Health, Relationships0 Comment

I’m always writing philosophical things. (Have you noticed? ;)) But what’s really getting at me isn’t all this philosophical stuff. At least I don’t think so. Maybe it’s just the reality – what’s right in front of me. I avoid...

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A Real-Life Thought Experiment

seekingmybalance November 5, 2018 Mental Health, Relationships Assumptions, Pregnancy1 Comment

So something big happened in the last week or two. Or could have been big. Yeah, I guess it was big anyway. All my assumptions about what I thought I wanted were challenged. Well, I guess come to think of...

Knock, Knock

seekingmybalance November 5, 2018 Mental Health, Relationships emotional rollercoaster, Transformation1 Comment

I wrote this post about polyamory a while ago. It became a bit viral in the polyamory community. There were very extreme reactions to it. Positive and negative. And looking back on the post, I remember what I was feeling...

Human Again

seekingmybalance August 14, 2018 Mental Health, Relationships abuse, Broken, Rape, Survivor, Victim0 Comment

[Disclosure: This post will discuss rape, specifically my own. Be warned if this may trigger you.] I have this book I own. I don’t even remember when I picked it up at a used bookstore…or why. Sometimes, it feels like...

Depressive Days

seekingmybalance August 8, 2018 Mental Health depression0 Comment

The pill I am on does not remove depressive days. It only (theoretically) reduces the number of episodes by 50% and reduces the number of days and severity of the episodes. Hence, I still go into what I call the...

Stories Revisited

seekingmybalance August 2, 2018 Mental Health, Relationships abuse, Divorce, Stories, Trauma0 Comment

I used to write. A lot. Like…a lot lot. Hours a day sometimes. From high school through to college. Almost every day. So needless to say, I have a whole archive of writing I will likely never read. It’s just...

Why Everyone Should Have a Dungeon

seekingmybalance June 12, 2018June 28, 2018 Mental Health, Relationships BDSM, Mental Compartmentalizing, Presence0 Comment

http://seekingmybalance.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/why-everyone-should-have-a-dungeon.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadOkay, so the title is a bit tongue-in-cheek. Kind of. Made you look? 😉 I don’t talk about kink here much – if ever. But, yeah…I’m kinky. And I have a dungeon. Seriously. It’s...

Lifting the Curtain

seekingmybalance June 7, 2018June 28, 2018 Mental Health Bipolar, depression, Psychiatric drugs0 Comment

http://seekingmybalance.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/lifting-the-Curtain.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadAs a follow-up to the question: Haven’t I suffered enough? It’s been about 3 weeks of convincing myself to take a mood stabilizer – and life is quite different and also the same. That’s...

Stories

seekingmybalance June 4, 2018June 28, 2018 Mental Health, Polyamory Divorce, Guilt, Home wrecker, Shame, Stories0 Comment

http://seekingmybalance.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Stories.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadStories are not facts or fiction. They are all valid, but none are fully truth or lies. I start with this because I fully recognize that my stories about my ex husband, my current...