Have You Ever Been “Gaslighted”? Why You Don’t Get To Call Me Crazy [My Emotional Freedom Manifesto]

by Charlottemental health, personal essays, sexual assaultPosted on 42 Comments

You are crazy. He said it so many times I believed him. I had to. It was the only explanation that made sense. The alternative – that he was a charismatic psychopath hell-bent on destroying me – was too terrifying to be considered. And so I believed him when he told me that I was …

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There Are Two Kinds of Panic Attacks – So Why Do We Only Talk About One? [Plus: Curing anxiety with probiotics!]

by Charlottemental health, UncategorizedPosted on 36 Comments

Being too cheap to pay bus fare for four kiddos, every day I have to camp out at the bottom of the grand staircase of their school and try to collect them as they scamper down in the crush of students. It’s like playing Plinko crossed with Whack-a-Mole. But this particular day it was all …

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