50 Interviews With People Who've Been Helped By Self-Care

We have interviewed 50 people who have overcome mental health struggles with the help of self-care. These stories show that self-care is one of the most powerful ways to overcome struggles of mental health.

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How Traveling, Self-Acceptance, and Social Support Helped Me Reclaim My Life

How Traveling, Self-Acceptance, and Social Support Helped Me Reclaim My Life

December 10, 2024
Helped by: Exercise, Self-acceptance, Self-Care, Traveling
My Struggle with Depression While Finding Strength Through Mental Health Advocacy

My Struggle with Depression While Finding Strength Through Mental Health Advocacy

October 8, 2024
Helped by: Medication, Self-Care
From Burnout to Balance: How I Found Happiness After Career Overload

From Burnout to Balance: How I Found Happiness After Career Overload

October 1, 2024
Helped by: Self-Care, Self-improvement

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I’ve interviewed 50 people who have been helped by self-care, and here are the top 5 struggles that these people have overcome:

  1. Depression (33 posts)
  2. Anxiety (31 posts)
  3. Stress (10 posts)
  4. Childhood trauma (8 posts)
  5. Suicidal (7 posts)

In our many years of publishing helpful mental health content, we always received questions from our readers about specific situations. While we have a lot of helpful tips to share on how to be happier, we simply can’t offer advice for every situation.

That’s why I’ve set out to interview folks with every type of mental health struggle. My job as an interviewer is to categorize these interviews and present them in a way that is most helpful to our readers.

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My Journey From Rock Bottom to Living With Intention and Cultivating Happiness Everyday

“Isolation, ruminating thoughts of my father dying by himself, alone and scared, surrounded only by occasional strangers in hazmatlike PPE clothing (this was a particularly effective form of emotional cutting and torture); junk food; not getting out of bed or showering; not answering my phone; and lots of wine—like red Solo cups full. I was a train wreck. Plain and simple.”

Struggled with:
Breakup
Depression
Loneliness

Helped by:
Medication
Self-Care
Self-improvement
Therapy

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How I Got Better at Navigating BPD With Self-Care, Inner Work and Peer Support

“In the past, I didn’t understand my behavior or intense mood swings, but now I understand much of it is rooted in past trauma. Nearly everything in regard to close personal relationships can trigger or set me off. I often describe it as living life with no skin. Everything hurts and my brain interprets every single interaction as a threat or rejection.”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Borderline Personality Disorder
Depression
Grief

Helped by:
Self-Care
Self-improvement

Spirituality
Therapy

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How I Learned to Manage Depression and BPD Through Art and Self-Development

“Do not listen to people who have achieved nothing in life, especially if you are an overachiever and ambitious person, if you have a dream, run after your dream, God has plans for you and he gifted each one of us with something. My gift was in the arts and since I was 14 years old I’ve been after that dream, even if my own family has tried to “cut off” my legs. Fight for your dream, when things are being the hardest and you’re ready to quit, that is when you shouldn’t quit because big things are coming.”

Struggled with:
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bullying
Childhood trauma
Depression
Suicidal

Helped by:
Medication
Religion
Self-Care
Self-improvement
Therapy

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How the 12-Step Program and Therapy Helped Me Deal With Addiction, Depression & ADHD

“I met my future husband when I was 26 but I never felt truly connected to him. I felt just as invisible to him as I did to everyone else. When we decided we wanted to have children, by some miracle, I was able to abstain from drinking just before and during my pregnancy. I coped by being very controlling, a shopaholic, and a workaholic. The twins were born when I was 31 and postpartum depression led me back to the only solution I thought I had: drinking”

Struggled with:
Addiction
ADHD
Anxiety
Depression
Panic attacks
Suicidal

Helped by:
Rehab
Reinventing yourself
Self-Care

Therapy
Treatment

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Residential Treatment Started My Healing Journey From Eating Disorders & Negative Body Image

“In my experience, I don’t think I could’ve recovered without residential treatment. Residential treatment is long-term (minimum 28 days) where you stay overnight at a facility and spend the day in individual and group therapy. In treatment, I was able to get out of my environment, focus solely on getting better, and not have to worry about school, friends, family, or work.”

Struggled with:
Eating disorder
Negative body image

Helped by:
Self-Care

Treatment

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How I Overcame Persistent Fears & Anxiety With EMDR Therapy and Closeness to Christ

“No matter how much I’d accomplished, because my life wasn’t excelling at the rate that I desired it to, I believed something was wrong with me. I would compare myself to others, and do things I wasn’t interested in or enjoyed, just to be accepted, and in doing so I lost my identity and my ability to be my true authentic self.”

Struggled with:
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Stress

Helped by:
Religion
Self-Care

Therapy