by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Freebies!, Mental Health
Friends, whether you are here at the end of my sharing my mental health story – or if you have found the link to my free download elsewhere, I’m so grateful to have you here and to be able to share some of my heart with you! I created this...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Recovery doesn’t happen in a straight line. This is what they told us at the outpatient treatment I went through after being released from the hospital. They drew this swirly line… one loop d loop after another on the board… and I had no idea then...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Today, I am going to talk about something that I notice a lot of people get squirmy about…. There is something about being in a psychiatric inpatient hospital that makes people anxious… I think it is a lot of it is some of the preconceived ideas that I...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Why don’t we talk more about hospitalization??? I’m not talking about for surgeries or broken bones, I’m talking about psychiatric inpatient care. I held SO much fear over the idea of being hospitalized. I had in my head, ideas of straight jackets...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
Yesterday I talked about desperation… today I want to tell you about what it was like, what the of feeling suicidal was actually like for me. I think we use that term…. but there isn’t a lot of awareness or understanding for what it...
by Shawna Clingerman | All About Me, Mental Health
In 2009 – it was literally only a matter of months from the time I started feeling that first sense of things being “off” in February to things being so severe that I needed to be hospitalized in May. This is why I am ALWAYS really quick to say...
