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Malarchuk lives to tell the tale of devastating effects of mental illness

Former NHL goalie who almost died on ice later attempted to take his own life

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I’ve been having bad days and drawing this helped me remember things.

I hope it helps you, too.

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take a sad song and make it better

(trigger warnings: depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicide, anorexia, chronic pain, drug abuse, gender norms, anything and everything mental health related. Don’t read this unless you’re willing to be offended.)

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There are all types of people in this world and we were not all made the same. Each and everyone of us is different. Some of us have brain difference that make all the differences in our lives. Most of us are struggling and are trying to learn how to live with our Monsters. If you live in the NC Triangle area check out My Monster & Me coming soon! It’s a peer 2 peer support group for teens and young adults dealing with personality differences.

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Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Struggle

"No therapist could promise a quick transformation or even sudden “insight,” much less a shimmering religious vision. But now Dr. Linehan was closing in on two seemingly opposed principles that could form the basis of a treatment: acceptance of life as it is, not as it is supposed to be; and the need to change, despite that reality and because of it. The only way to know for sure whether she had something more than a theory was to test it scientifically in the real world — and there was never any doubt where to start…

In particular she chose to treat people with a diagnosis that she would have given her young self: borderline personality disorder, a poorly understood condition characterized by neediness, outbursts and self-destructive urges, often leading to cutting or burning. In therapy, borderline patients can be terrors — manipulative, hostile, sometimes ominously mute, and notorious for storming out threatening suicide.

Dr. Linehan found that the tension of acceptance could at least keep people in the room: patients accept who they are, that they feel the mental squalls of rage, emptiness and anxiety far more intensely than most people do. In turn, the therapist accepts that given all this, cutting, burning and suicide attempts make some sense.”

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a therapist linked to this from her website, about: DBT (Dialectic Behavior Therapy), a psychotherapy developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. and designed to teach specific skills to effectively and mindfully respond in the moment and “build a life worth living.” 

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Use of medication in the treatment of mental illness is something I feel ambivalent about. For some people it’s incredibly important to take it, and it’s integral to the management of their illness. My personal experience is that trying med after med and it having little or no effect means it’s better to be off them. No pill I ever took lifted my mood, stopped me panicking and gave the day even a small bit of meaning like having a dog has done, so yep, I think pets should be included in prescriptions.

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Often when I’ve been in an extreme mental state, humans seem very far away, if not completely disconnected from me. And medications, in my experience, have been useless at bridging that gap. But my dog and other animals (I live on a farm; I’ve found that goats and pigs and cows and chickens have this same ability) always can reach through and create a connection in a completely calm, noninvasive way that has saved me multiple times.

Animals are important, you guys. Protect them at all costs.

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