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Treatment Resistant Depression: What Has Helped Me
Although I have bipolar disorder, it manifests itself mainly with severe, crippling depression. I’ll discuss my hypomanic episodes at a later time. Unfortunately for me, conventional treatment with antidepressants and different types of therapy have not worked. I only recently found out why the typical medications are not beneficial to me after changing psychiatrists. After…
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Doing What You Love Is A Luxury
Doing what you love is a luxury. But not always in the way people think. When people talk about the luxury of doing what you love, it’s often in reference to time or money or some other privilege. But doing what you love is also a luxury of a stable mood and/or mental status. This…
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Juvia’s Place Nubian 2 Palette Review
Over the past few months I’ve been seeing more and more Instagram posts and YouTube videos raving over the Juvia’s Place Nubian 1 and Nubian 2 palettes. So being the makeup hypebeast that I am, I had to get both of them. I started with the Nubian 1 and loved it so much I picked…
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Knowing the Difference Between A Comfort Zone and Limitations
I’ve always had big dreams. Even before I developed and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I wanted to go to an Ivy League college or an HBCU, I wanted to become a doctor, I wanted to have kids, I wanted to do a whole slew of big things. However, over the years I discovered, often…
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How To Stop Accidentally Buying Dupes
You walk into Ulta and are all about this beautiful new lip color, AND they have a sale. You think, “This is such a good deal and I have nothing else that looks just like this one.” So you go ahead and buy it. When you get home and to put it in your makeup…
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