Category: Mental Health
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Postpartum Depression
After pregnancy, some women start to feel like they’re just not ‘right’. Hormonal changes, healing, and taking care of a newborn while still running a household can all attribute to this feeling. In cases,…
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Caregivers of the Elderly
During my time as a Certified Nursing Assistant, I spent most of my time caring for nursing home residents who suffered from Alzheimer’s and other dementias. I have seen so many tired and depressed…
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Motivational Monday: Albert Einstein
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”- Albert Einstein Something that bothers me to the extreme is how attached some people get to…
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Motivational Monday: Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Helen Keller was born into a life of…
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One Whole Week… Are You Serrrrrious?
I have divulged to you my plans (or unplans, as the case may be) to stay home for the holidays – and not commit ourselves to hauling ass all over Tennessee, Alabama and Florida,…
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What is Happening to Me?
A little known fact about me. I once helped liberate fourteen animals from a labratory that was affiliated with a major drugstore chain. It was all very covert and nondestructive. We saved fourteen animals…
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Autumnal Bliss and Frolicky Tots
Somehow I scored a weekend off of work and was able to have a much needed date day/night with my son. Saturday we started the day off right with several very impressive estate sales…
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My Britney Spears Moment…
I can honestly say that I, since high school, I haven’t worried much about impressing people. The parental cliques on the school playground make me nothing more than amused and damned happy that I…
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It’s Like Dominos
Something happens with comfort and luxury. You start becoming self involved and isolated in your experiences as a human being. Hold on a sec while I explain. So, I have this new car. A…
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Terrible Terrible Twoooooooooo
Oh. My. God. My daughter woke up this morning apparently possessed with satan himself. I don’t know what happened. She has been sick – and I thought that her nasty attitude was a symptom…