Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. -Tim Hansel The major obstacle I have encountered to being happy is a tendency of dwelling on the past, ignoring the present or obsessing about the future. Doing each of these alone is a catalyst towards incessant sadness but added together this psychological approach [...]
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Cliches: How We Often Sell Ourselves Short In A Society Obsessed With Simplicity
April 23, 2012
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If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. -Jean-Paul Sartre 1st Class Citizens: Freedom, access to education/information 2nd Class Citizens: Oppression, tyranny and fear Life is far more nuanced than a quote from a fortune cookie. We minimize our individuality and the uniqueness of our lived circumstances when we resort to common used [...]
Read more The Goddess Complex and The Death of My Infallible Mother
April 16, 2012
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I am a flawed human being – a far more flawed human being than you realize. -Haruki Murakami Have you ever had realizations so jarring that your emotional psyche is forever changed? The landscape of a basic belief you probably held since childhood is destroyed and gone forever. Akin to when you were told Santa Clause doesn’t exist [...]
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Misery Loves Company: Why You Shouldn’t Give a Damn About Anyone Else’s Opinion But Your Own
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Can Men Stay Faithful? Aka why guys with Bipolar Usually Fail at Monogamy!
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F*$! the World…When Anger Can be a Good Thing
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying...& Love the Bipolar Disorder!
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Waiting for Superman: But only you can save yourself!
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The Aggressive Happiness Method: An Epic Treatise on How To Feel Awesome 99% of The Time!
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Cliches: How We Often Sell Ourselves Short In A Society Obsessed With Simplicity
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The Goddess Complex and The Death of My Infallible Mother
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5 Years, 4 Hospitals, 3 Near Suicides, 2 Masters Degrees & 1 Unsolved Murder: The Lives, Deaths and Nuances of Shawn Maxam
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Emotional Maturity, Boundaries and Why Most of the People You Know Aren’t Actually Adults
Maxam
Maxam is a writer, mental health advocate and Bipolar griot! I write stories that I hope will help individuals who have mental illnesses (and those who love them) live rich and fulfilling lives. R.I.P. SKH
