2017-2020 arası yaşadığım, işsizlik ve ağır bunalım üzerine yazmak istiyorum. Artık bu dönem benim için tamamen kapandı, geride hikayeler ve anılar kaldı. Bunları dünyayla paylaşmanın hiçbir sakıncası yok artık… Varsa da umursamıyorum. İşsizlik ve mutsuzluk psikolojisinin benim için en zorlayıcı noktası, o güne kadar emek verdiğin ve elde ettiğin bütün tecrübelerin, niteliklerin, bilgilerin ve becerilerinContinue reading “Ölüm Kalım”
Category Archives: Mental Health
Where Have We Left Off?
Where to go from here ? How to draw lines and maintain privacy, after having exposed that I have been a survivor of domestic violence ? After reading Alice’s Miller “The Body Never Lies”, I had started sharing publically any type of harassment I had come across. The book described what I had known sinceContinue reading “Where Have We Left Off?”
I don’t need a husband, nor a victim-blaming therapist
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As you know, I moved in with my boyfriend when I was 23 and he turned out to be a domestic abuser. It took me 2 years to completely abandon him. Yet within the frame of this month, I would like to share a fundamental aspect of my experience whichContinue reading “I don’t need a husband, nor a victim-blaming therapist”
D is for… Dignity, Deus Ex Machina and Dreams
Valerie had said, we must never give the last inch of our integrity away. Clearly, Valerie has never gone through the extreme forms of depression. The pillars of my integrity, the Circassian matriarch and the idealist researcher, shattered in my mind. I looked at my hands in terror, “Are these really my hands!?” They wereContinue reading “D is for… Dignity, Deus Ex Machina and Dreams”
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