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lightCoconut3470
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Using Aquarium fish as therapeutic hobby
Hobby Zone / by lightCoconut3470
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 April 25th, 2021
...See more I'm 25 I've struggled with depression and anxiety since I was a teenager and I still struggle with it today I went through alot of bullying in school it still effects me I basically shutdown and I turned away any help but after having struggled with that I found my love for fish keeping in aqauriums and I fell in love with my Betta fish companion and he's more than a pet to me but family and a friend who I have with me all the time and it's changed me way of thinking and of life and happiness and it helps me to cope with my mental health problems that I struggle with and I named him Optimus my therapist named Carla suggested that I would start an aqaurium to help me learn to cope with my anxiety and depression and it's really helped me
Life with depression
Depression Support / by lightCoconut3470
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 April 12th, 2021
...See more I have had depression and anxiety since I was a teenager and people thought they knew me but they never did no one ever cared about the problems that I have been going through and knowing the fact that no one in my family ever cared enough to understand me and I've remembered so many times during my teens and young adult years in my 20's I was going through bullying that I've came so close many times to be staring down the edge of the blade of the knife and I still remember the times when I was almost close to ending my life but I always found this dimly lit flame in side of me that was very faint that it could have gone out in a split second and things just never Seemed to get any better but I always felt the warmth of my mother that I kept going but this time during the pandemic I never knew that I would again come closer to death but I had the courage to never give up but my willingness to defy death and hold onto that warmth of life but I always wondered what life would have been like I never existed and or if I had died
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