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Fission products

Different emotions produce different responses. Some stick around a while.

anxiety, depression, mental health, self image

Irrelevant difference

Are people at work treating me differently because of my transparency about my mental health journey?

anxiety, career, depression, mental health, pretending, recovery, reflections, reframe, self image, therapy

Friday I’m in love

There isn’t a cure and there’s still hope.

depression, future, mental health, perspective, recovery, reflections

Play it again, Sam

As I tell my story again and again, I see the progress I’ve made.

career, depression, mental health, recovery, reflections, self image

What a difference

After a year, I’m back to work and back to living.

anxiety, career, depression, future, mental health, recovery

A big week

A series of fortunate events.

anxiety, business, career, change, depression, diversity, emotional intelligence, fear, future, jerk brain, job, leadership, lessons learned, medication, mental health, OCD, perspective, phd, podcast, priorities, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, self image, therapy, wellness, work

Pulling back

I’m managing my energy to take care of myself.

anxiety, depression, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perspective, PTSD, recovery, reflections

Validity

Working on my dissertation proposal edits and learning how to define success for myself.

anxiety, depression, lessons learned, mental health, OCD, perspective, phd, psychology, PTSD, recovery, reflections, reframe, research, self image, therapy

Early to bed

Working on getting more sleep.

anxiety, depression, mental health, recovery, sleep

Correspondence

Recovery from depression has changed how I relate to people.

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