Tag: Mental Health
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When BPD Isn’t BPD: The Quiet Crisis of Misdiagnosed C-PTSD
For a long time, I truly believed I had Borderline Personality Disorder. Not because it deeply resonated with me, but because a therapist gave me that label when I was raw, heartbroken, confused, and just trying to understand why my emotions felt so big and overwhelming in my body. It was right after a complicated…
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Reading Beauty Sick as a Muslim Woman: A Book Review
In the book Beauty Sick, Renee Engeln talks about how modern society’s obsession with physical appearance slowly chips away at our self-worth, mental health, and even our ability to focus on what actually matters. From magazine covers to social media influencers, we’re constantly surrounded by “perfect” bodies and faces, most of which are unrealistic, edited,…
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My Faith Is Not a Spectacle
A personal reflection on how extremism and media narratives harm Muslims, distort Islam, and turn a deeply peaceful faith into a public spectacle.
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The Side Effects They Don’t Tell You About: What Long-Term Benzos and Adderall Use Can Really Do to You
For years, the mental health industry has sold us this idea that a pill is the fastest way out of our pain. A shortcut. A lifeline. A chemical solution for emotional problems that were often created by our environment, our trauma, our relationships, and our lifestyle. And when we’re desperate, hurting, or exhausted from carrying…
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The Hardest Truth Therapy Made Me Face Today
I just walked out of therapy and I feel very unsettled right now. The entire session came down to one thing I really didn’t want to accept. Some people will hurt you and they genuinely do not care. They don’t sit with it. They don’t feel the weight. They don’t lose sleep. They don’t replay the…
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Unfck Your Brain by Faith G. Harper (Book Review)
Honestly I’m really in my self-help books era right now. I’m craving anything that helps me understand my mind, my patterns, my healing, and the way my past still echoes through my present. What struck me most is how compassionate the book is. It doesn’t treat you like you’re broken or weak. Unfck Your Brain isn’t just a catchy…
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – Book Review
I’m currently reading this book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle which centers on living in the present moment to find peace and emphasizing that things like anxiety and worry comes from dwelling on the past or future, and that true self is consciousness beyond the constant mind chatter. It’s seriously changing my life.…
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Honestly, Vanessa 