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    Art, Crafting, and Coping

    Shirley / February 16, 2019 / 0 Comments

    For years, as is known to many of my contemporaries and friends who have known me ever since, depression and anxiety has always been my staple. Not a week goes by without depressive…

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    Site Matters

    Some Site Overhauls

    Shirley / January 7, 2019 / 0 Comments

    2019 is here, and I resolved to make some changes to the blog. I have started with the new incorporated Ashe theme that I find very beautiful to behold: the site looks fresher…

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    The Year That Was and the Year that Would Be

    Shirley / December 29, 2018 / 0 Comments

    This 2018 has been one of those rough years for me: a three-month leave from work due to a rupture in my moods and mental state, sporadic outbursts of emotions on the web,…

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    Those Episodes

    On the Question of Help

    Shirley / December 27, 2018 / 4 Comments

    (This is originally a social media account status message I wrote which I thought I should repost here.) This is a mystery to me, actually. If one helps himself or herself all throughout,…

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    Faith and Mental Illness

    Reluctant Agnosticism

    Shirley / December 26, 2018 / 0 Comments

    For all my life I have been into religiosity and faith. I remember that, as a child, I would collect rosaries and prayer books, voraciously read the Bible, and participate in Bible studies…

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    Mental Health

    Resolutions for Mental Health: Anticipating the New Year on a More Positive Note

    Shirley / December 25, 2018 / 0 Comments

    For starters, I am not one who could be found scribbling away New Year’s Resolutions on a notepad or encoding them onto a word editor or blogging about them—really, mostly because I resort…

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    Ruminations

    The Daily Grind: Depression By The Day

    Shirley / December 22, 2018 / 0 Comments

    I admit that I can feel depressed even when I am working or in the middle of a task. More often than not, I end up staring blankly into space, as though time…

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    Those Episodes

    The Prevalence of Depression

    Shirley / December 11, 2018 / 0 Comments

    This week I have been primarily distressed most of the time; and although I would find it uncomfortable, I still—at times—search and long for it as though a cub to her mother, a…

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    Poetry as Called For

    POETRY: Memento Mori

    Shirley / November 2, 2018 / 0 Comments

    This is a poem I wrote in commemoration of All Souls’ Day, where people troop to cemeteries to remember and recall their loved ones who have died. I don’t know much how to…

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    Poetry as Called For

    POEM: To See You

    Shirley / October 16, 2018 / 0 Comments

    In the fervour of my desire That I Long to see you under the stars With a talk Serene and unabashed About the hows and whys About we, in retrospect for Against the…

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