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Rising From The Ashes: My 20+ Years With Mental Illness

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When You Fear Yourself

January 16, 2018 by spaige08 2 Comments

There were brief moments, tiny myopic moments, seconds that I could see my reality. In these moments of lucidity, I became scared.  I was frightened at what I was becoming and how fast my body and brain were transforming.  Fortunately (or unfortunately) these moments of clarity were scarce because my body was failing me so … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, depression, foster mom, hospitalization, medication, mental health, Uncategorized, writing Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, depression, emotional, foster mom, generalized anxiety disorder, hospital, medications, mental health, mental illness, writer

Teaching My Daughter To Rise Above The Stigma Of Mental Illness

January 11, 2018 by spaige08 Leave a Comment

My daughter has seen me. She has seen me throughout her eleven years of life.  She has seen me lose touch with reality several times, seen me cry uncontrollably many times, seen me at a handful of Psychiatric and Therapy appointments.  She has even seen me become hospitalized.  Throughout all of this, she has stood … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, mental health, parenting, stigma, Uncategorized, writing, Youth Mental Health Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, daughter, generalized anxiety disorder, mental health, mental illness, mom, mommy, mother, overwhelmed, parenting, preteen, raising a child, raising a daughter, raising children, stigma, writer

When You Learn How Important Self-Advocacy Is

October 24, 2017 by spaige08 1 Comment

In the last twenty years, off and on, with my frenemies, Anxiety & Depression, I have learned quite a bit about living a life with Mental Illness. My first twelve years were in secret, keeping my mouth shut on anything relating to the words melancholy, empty, sad. I was told to hide, told that the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, depression, hospitalization, medication, mental health, postpartum, self care, Uncategorized, writing Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, helping others, hospital, medications, mental health, mental illness, postpartum, postpartum depression, self care, writer

I Will Not Hide Anymore: A Letter To The Non-Believer

September 27, 2017 by spaige08 Leave a Comment

To The Non-Believer,   If I passed you on the street, would you be able to identify that I am not ‘normal’? Would you cringe and slither away from me?  Would you see me as different, weak, an attention seeker?   For years, I stayed hidden because of people like you. Taught to fear my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, depression, hospitalization, medication, mental health, Uncategorized Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, depression, helping others, medications, mental health, mental illness, stigma, writer

When False Information On A Meme Makes You Angry…

June 23, 2017 by spaige08 Leave a Comment

But we live in a society that believes Mental Illness is not on the same level as a Physical Illness. 

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, depression, hospitalization, medication, mental health, stigma, Uncategorized Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, helping others, hospital, medications, mental health, mental illness, stigma

Hi, My Name Is Not “Sophia’s Mom”

June 1, 2017 by spaige08 1 Comment

​I was not given the name “Sophia’s Mom” at birth.  How would my parents know all those years ago that I would go on to have a beautiful daughter and name her Sophia.  I am sure they had hopes and dreams for grandchildren, but exact details as the sex and name of the child could … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, mental health, Mother, parenting, stigma, writing Tagged: advocacy, career, daughter, hobbies, mom, mommy, project manager, PTO, writer

I Support: My Response To Recent Events

February 27, 2017 by spaige08 2 Comments

I didn’t know what ‘white privilege’ was until I attended the Warrior Mom Conference in Boston, MA in July of 2015.  I have been living in a suburban bubble for the last twenty plus years.  Before that I grew up in the melting pot that is New York City.  I had friends of all races, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, postpartum, stigma Tagged: advocacy, loyalty, respect, support, women

Can I Call Myself An Author?

February 1, 2017 by spaige08 Leave a Comment

I have always dreamt of being a published Author.  Writing has always been a huge part of who I am.  I remember writing imagination filled stories since elementary school.  In junior high, I expanded to poetry, the easiest form of writing to express myself.  I was even in the Creative Writing talent as my school … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, mental health, Uncategorized, writing Tagged: advocacy, author, blog, blogger, mental health, mental illness, wordpress, writer, writing

I’ve Always Wanted To Be An Architect… And Other Shit 

January 11, 2017 by spaige08 1 Comment

I remember my first Lego set.  I was six and my family had just gotten back to my Aunt & Uncle’s house from the mall.  I am not sure why I wanted this set so badly, but I begged, I pleaded, and now it was lying on the floor of the bedroom I was sitting in. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, depression, postpartum, Uncategorized Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, growing older, helping others, mental illness, postpartum depression, stigma

November 16th… How Far I’ve Come

November 16, 2016 by spaige08 1 Comment

It’s been a decade, 10 years, and still on this date every year I think about it, the day I admitted myself into the hospital for severe Postpartum Depression and Anxiety.  Every year I would cry.  The last few years, I got angry.  None of the years did I listen to my therapists (last and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Advocacy, anxiety, depression, hospitalization, postpartum Tagged: advocacy, anxiety, depression, helping others, hospital, mental health, mental illness, postpartum
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