Category: Posts
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Navigating the Noise: The quest for meaning in 2024
*An essay piece written for a college writing contest, honourable mention winner Some may refer to our current times as “skibidi Ohio,” terms that Generation Alpha uses to describe anything weird, crazy, and chaotic. Indeed, 2024 has its fair share of chaos and weirdness, especially in regards to the human experience. The phrase ‘unprecedented change’…
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Reflections on Loneliness and Friendships
People often talk about how friendships in adulthood are difficult and it’s true! Finding time within separate busy schedules to get together with others is like trying to piece together a complex puzzle and often times remembering to reach out just to talk is a task almost as difficult. Just as maintaining previously held friendships…
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Baby’s First Psychiatric Assessment
Recently, I finally had my first official psychiatric assessment. Up until this point, I had only ever seen my GP about my mental health (for a few reasons, mainly the long wait times for psychiatric referrals in Canada). In the interest of transparency and sharing experiences, I wanted to take the time to delve into…
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Addressing Suicidal ideation
CONTENT WARNING: suicide, suicidal ideation Intro There are few topics that, when brought up in conversation or otherwise, have the power to immediately change the energy in a room. Certain topics have the power to immediately silence conversation, introduce a sense of heaviness, and make most uncomfortable. Suicide and suicidal ideation is one of those…
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Lack of Connection: Some thoughts
The above image was taken in 2020, amidst lockdowns and peak loneliness Intro These days, options for communication and expression are perhaps as open-ended and expansive as they have ever been. If people want to share, share they will. We use a wide variety of methods and platforms to share our ideas. It follows that…
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My Mental Health: The Journey Thus Far
A deep dive into my mental health journey. Here, I go through the value of learning other people’s experiences and outline my own.
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Cold Rain: A Short Story
A Short Story written by me in 2020 It had been months since I had sat down to write and now here I was staring at a blank screen. Writing used to be something that I didn’t even have to think about. I would just sit down, and the words would flow from my head…
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Why blog? SO WHAT?
It was probably when I gained a love for reading that I began to grow my penchant for writing. As a child getting into books for the first time, I started to realize the power of words, expression, and communication. Perhaps this isn’t the way I would have described it then, but I believe I…