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Knowing when you’re having a nervous breakdown doesn’t mean you’re going out of control (even though it feels like it). A nervous breakdown (also called a mental breakdown) is a term that describes a period of extreme mental or emotional stress. Consequently, the stress is so great that the person…

Misery. It can make a few minutes feel endless, while a difficult period may later seem strangely blank in memory. If that’s familiar, I want you to know your experience deserves care, even when the clock tells a different story. Still, distress doesn’t affect everyone’s sense of time the same…

Intimidation can walk into a room before a person does. You feel it at work, in school, in relationships, and sometimes in a simple conversation…

Feeling of impending doom can hit like a trapdoor opening under your day. One second you’re fine, and the next your whole body is screaming…

Ambivalence can feel like everything and nothing at once. You care, maybe a lot, yet one part of you moves closer while another part pulls…

Grace is often mistaken for something that belongs only to calm days. But in real life, it meets you in the middle of stress, shame,…

Hi, I’m Cindee, the creator and author behind one voice in the vastness of emotions. I’ve been dealing with depression and schizophrenia for three decades. I’ve been combating anxiety for ten years. Mental illnesses have such a stigma behind them that it gets frustrating. People believe that’s all you are, but you’re so much more. You can strive to be anything you want without limitations. So, be kind.