At the start of my senior year of high school, my family and I moved from a cookie cutter, suburban neighborhood where I had grown up to a small town in the middle of nowhere.…
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Week in the Valley of Shadows
Decompensation: Psychology, a loss of ability to keep up normal psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions. Dictionary.com One of my favorite literary descriptions of a psychiatric decompensation is in the 1933 short…
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After I began to understand my own Mental Health.
Learning to understand who I was, why I felt and thought the way I did, it was the hardest journey of my life. Making the milestone to then accept every part of me, was liberating.…
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FeaturedHealing From AbuseUnderstanding Mental Health
Before I Understood the Signs and Symptoms that Affect My Mental Health.
It seems impossible to me that there was a life before these sleepless nights and automated days. Where I was not plagued by my own mind, poisoned by myself. Yet, I know there was. Generally,…
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What I Learned from Overcoming My Severe Depression
by Matt Pappasby Matt Pappas“People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb…
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Growing up under emotional abuse and not realizing it’s abuse.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasI am complicated, at least, that’s what people say when they first get to know me. My brain, it doesn’t ‘function’ in a neurotypical way. It’s hard to explain why, not because I don’t understand…
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CBD Oil for Anxiety, my experience in trying it out.
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasWhen I first started this blog, the platform was and continues to be, “living with Dissociation, Anxiety, and PTSD”. It’s what I was diagnosed with when working with my helping professional years ago, and what…
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Are you a Survivor of Abuse? Join Us and Be a Part of our Book!
by Matt Pappasby Matt PappasOne of the things that I always find fascinating is that, when I look back and how Surviving My Past got started, it’s mind-blowing to see it from the tiny place where I started sharing…