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As a person who lives with a mental health condition, I need to be extra self-aware. This is doubly important during times of high...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Apr 15, 2020
- 8 min
Creating Viral Hope
In recent days the world has changed quickly and in ways that often feels drastically to me. I know we are all scared and shaken because...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jan 30, 2020
- 11 min
Know Thyself
Prologue Since I came out of the proverbial “crazy closet” and began to discuss my diagnosis openly, I have been asked quite a few...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Sep 25, 2019
- 8 min
A Mother's Love
When my son was born twenty-two years ago, he struggled for his life. The cord that shared my strength with him while he grew in my womb...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Aug 27, 2019
- 6 min
Walls
When I was fifteen years old my favorite grandmother passed away. She was a wonderful woman! I loved the sound of her laughter and how...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Aug 13, 2019
- 7 min
Tale of a Troubled Girl
We never really know how our stories will affect the stories of another person. Sometimes we become so caught up in our own narrative...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jul 30, 2019
- 6 min
Trigger Happy
If you live with a mental health diagnosis or spend time with someone who does, you may have heard the word “trigger.” It is a pretty...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jul 16, 2019
- 7 min
Rollercoasters, Roadways, and Recovery
As a person living with a mental health diagnosis and also a family member and friend of people living with mental health diagnoses; I am...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jul 2, 2019
- 5 min
Do You Understand Me?
I was talking with my therapist several weeks ago, about how sharing deeply personal subjects with my family and loved ones hadn’t gotten...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jun 18, 2019
- 6 min
Routine Denial
I am certain at some point during my thirty-year journey toward recovery, a mental health professional spoke to me about the importance...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jun 18, 2019
- 6 min
Routine Denial
I am certain at some point during my thirty-year journey toward recovery, a mental health professional spoke to me about the importance...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Jun 4, 2019
- 6 min
I am not a Plot Device!
It never ceases to amaze me how insensitively and inaccurately the media portrays Dissociative Identity Disorder. The plots tend to go...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- May 21, 2019
- 6 min
Meetings in my Shower
At the beginning of my epic journey of self discovery four years ago I was terrified of how people would view me if I shared my...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- May 7, 2019
- 5 min
I'm Crazy; Do You Still Love Me?
One of the hardest things to navigate as a person living with a mental health condition, is how and when to tell the people in your life...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Apr 23, 2019
- 5 min
The Unspeakable
There is no mental health topic considered more unspeakable than suicide. It is the taboo of all taboos. There is a deep shame associated...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Apr 9, 2019
- 5 min
The Medicine Dance
For many of us living with mental illness, medication is a part of our daily life. It can be one of the most valuable tools we have in...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Mar 27, 2019
- 5 min
Sleep: My Frenemy
My relationship with sleep has always been complicated. As I lay in bed last night, exhausted yet unable to shut down and sleep, I was...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Mar 13, 2019
- 3 min
You Are Not Alone
Anxiety plays with your emotions in a host of conflicting ways. Your self esteem takes a major hit repeatedly as self doubt, and in my...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Feb 26, 2019
- 4 min
Why is it so Hard?
When you live with mental illness some days are better than others. Days, weeks, or months may go by where I feel ok. I may not be...
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Jennifer Silvernights
- Feb 12, 2019
- 4 min
Who Am I?
I have read that the core parts of a person's personality are set in early childhood. It is made up of both our DNA and our life...
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