I know it’s been a long time since I’ve really blogged, but I’m doing so, so much better than I was. I’ve been back in therapy for six months now. I’ve been moved out for almost 5 years. I saw three different counselors in Colorado — a Christian psychologist and two counselors at my collegeContinueContinue reading “This is a story about the unexpected”
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Outside the Box: Recovering from obsessive guilt
“i am still learning that i am allowed to be human out hereinside it was not allowedthose things made a bad thing happenso i still feel that. any tiny mistake… ” ~ anonymous friend Obsessive guilt is no longer my religion. But for many years, it was, and the scars left by it still lingerContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Recovering from obsessive guilt”
Community and professionals should support people struggling with depression
This article was originally published in The Scribe, UCCS’s student newspaper, on Oct. 20, 2014. By Eleanor SkeltonNews Editor Friday morning, three weeks ago, 9:54 a.m. There’s a new Google chat notification on my phone. “I hurt myself this morning… it was worse than I thought it would be, but it didn’t hurt enough… tell me when you’reContinueContinue reading “Community and professionals should support people struggling with depression”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster
Continued from Part 2 Content note: self-harm In a group session summer before last with my counselor and my parents, my mom mentioned the time my sister asked her why I was so logical and scientific when one of our dogs was being euthanized in his old age. “How could Eleanor be so cold?” she’dContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 3: The Angry Monster”
Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful
I lie here lifelessIn this cocoonShedding my skin cause I’m ready toI wanna break outI found a way outI don’t believe that it’s gotta be this wayThe worst is the waitingIn this womb I’m suffocating Feel your presence filling up my lungs with oxygenI take you inI’ve diedRebirthing nowI wanna live for love wanna live forContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 1: The heart is deceitful”
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