Deconstructing the stigma around Mental Health is part of our mission at Try Stress Management.
Share your story and experience with stress and mental illness and help in raising awareness about mental health.
In this category, read personal stories of people struggling with anxiety and other mental illnesses. Discover what they are beyond their condition and how they practice self-care for mental wellness.
Welcoming a new existence into the world is a profound and joyous revel in, however for a few new moms, it can additionally be observed by the challenging journey of postpartum depression. In this complete manual, we will explore a guide to dealing with postpartum depression and a roadmap to assist mothers in navigating this … Read more
Being a parent is like riding a rollercoaster—thrilling, heartwarming, but sometimes downright stressful. In this piece, we’re going to unravel the twists and turns of parenting stress, the silent challenge that can mess with your zen. We’ll dig deep into what triggers parenting stress, how it messes with your head, and, most importantly, how to … Read more
My name is Jimmy, I am 33 years old and have been suffering from panic attacks for many years. It was only in 2020 that I learned more about this disorder, and it was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist after I learned about some cases on the Internet and contacted people with similar symptoms. It … Read more
An insight into how spirituality and mindfulness benefits and how it can help us to have a better understanding of ourselves and our struggles.
I’m sitting outside on my patio with a cup of coffee mixed with vanilla soy milk. The kind of milk my fiancé calls “too plant-y.” A knit is thrown on my lap. There’s a super chic hipster cafe that is roasting what smells like sweet potatoes and sausage next door. A man is singing along … Read more
Approximately one in every five young adults between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four suffer from clinical depression. Around five thousand within this group commit suicide every year. Even more disturbing— around seventy-five percent of people with mental disorders, never receive the treatment they need. What is Depression Depression belongs to a cluster of mental … Read more
How anxiety manifests itself physically and what you can do to stop it My throat felt dangerously constricted. For months I lived my life with what seemed like an invisible vice grip wrapped around my neck. The tension was so real to me that I went as far as to allow doctors to stick tubes … Read more
Imagine Imagine this. An existence where you are entrapped in a deep dark hole. Minimal sunlight peeks through the blackness. You feel like you are to be by yourself, but amongst everyone else. There is little hope or eagerness to swarm out of the toxic depths of despair. My Story That is not an imagination, … Read more
I remember those dreaded manilla envelopes. Those awful signed, sealed, and delivered educator-sopped letters of approval, or in my case, lack-thereof. You know, those bitter, vague formalities of invalid judgement. Report cards were filled to the brim with statements like, “your child expresses satisfactory work” and if you were lucky enough, phrases like, Joe is … Read more
Fighting the stigma of borderline personality disorder Girl Interrupted, Single White Female, crazy bitch syndrome—these are the associations the severely uninformed link to borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder, a personality disorder characterized by variations in identity disturbance, is one of the most stigmatized mental illness out there. Psychologists and medical professionals alike, deem these … Read more
