By Valerie Rice | November 12, 2020 I bet that, by now, you have heard of gaslighting. You have probably also heard this term used incorrectly and ihope you are not doing so yourself. Because that does not help. Gaslighting is an emotional and psychological form of abuse where a person or group makes someoneContinue reading “Election Aftermath Part 2: A Nation Misguided”
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Covid Can’t Stop Them: Animals Helping People
By Valerie Rice | November 10, 2020 Raise your hand if you love fuzzy creatures. It could also be feathered friends. Or things with scales. Pets, people, I’m talking about pets. I have four pets: three cats and a dog. Honestly, these cats just keep showing up at my house and who am I toContinue reading “Covid Can’t Stop Them: Animals Helping People”
Support Groups : What You Need to Know
By Valerie Rice | November 3, 2020 I talk a lot about self help and what you can do to improve your life with mental illness and various roadblocks that pop up in your life path. One thing I often allude to is support groups, but I rarely go into detail about them. Support groupsContinue reading “Support Groups : What You Need to Know”
Go ahead, &;*%@ it up: How Failure is Your Friend
By Valerie Rice | October 23, 2020 Raise your hand if you are a perfect person. Anyone? No? Good. Perfect people are super annoying. And liars. Nobody is perfect. And yet, for some reason, we all like to pretend that we are and that we never make mistakes. I am guilty of this too. IContinue reading “Go ahead, &;*%@ it up: How Failure is Your Friend”
Hell Is Repetition
By Valerie Rice | October 12, 2020 OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder, is one of the top five mental health disorders in the country today. Many people find this disorder, like many others, to be funny. They clean their homes and joke about having OCD. But it is much more than that.It is an excruciatinglyContinue reading “Hell Is Repetition”
Secrets of Substance Abuse
By Valerie Rice | October 11,2020 When you think of substance abuse or addiction, what comes to mind? Is it a heavy drinker who can’t keep a job? Maybe it’s a junkie passed out in an alley. Perhaps you think of a shady character trying to sell your precious children unknown substances on their wayContinue reading “Secrets of Substance Abuse”
Psych Meds: Secrets You Need to Know
By Valerie Rice, October 6, 2020 Welcome to America, the land of the overworked, underpaid, highly stressed human who is probably taking some kind of pill to deal with their reality. Can’t sleep? Have a pill. Working 60 hours a week and still can”t pay your rent and it makes you want to cry allContinue reading “Psych Meds: Secrets You Need to Know”
Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About PTSD
By Valerie Rice October 1, 2020 PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the time of the modern-day plague, which is what I am lovingly calling Covid-19, odds are that this mental health condition is on the rise. Once referred to as shell shock, because many soldiers came home from war forever scarred by beingContinue reading “Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About PTSD”
