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! This post is was written as the...
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...
