Welcome to My Personal Page
I am participating in this event to raise money and awareness for a great cause - our collective mental health. Please sponsor me and help make a difference.
My story is likely very similar to many of yours. After losing my mom rather suddenly to cancer, I struggled a lot with grief (mostly, because I was trying to avoid feeling it). A lot of the time, life was good, but a lot of the time it wasn't - I didn't want to get out of bed, spend time with other people (including my husband and children), and had just enough energy to go to work, do my job, and appear 'normal' before coming home to isolate myself in bed binging Netflix and food. I started feeling anxious a lot of the time, struggled to make decisions and manage my responsibilities, and experienced panic attacks.
I went to see my doctor who referred me to a psychologist. She helped me unpack complex grief, gave me strategies to manage anxious feelings, and helped me to start re-thinking my expectations of myself (which were usually high). It helped a lot. It got me through a pandemic.
Then life got hard again, and peri-menopause set it which escalated my anxious feelings. I'm still working my way through this round with the skills I learned last time around and am coming to terms with the fact that if I want to feel well most/all of the time, I need to change my lifestyle to prioritize myself higher than I have been amongst all the other things that are important to me.
If this resonates with you at all feel free to reach out to chat, donate or join me May 31st to Walk to Defeat Depression.
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