Tag: Suicide

• In the Wilderness

  

  I’m a highly-functioning, anxious depressive. Doesn’t that sound fun? I hide it extremely well — the gift of being considered highly-functional. No one sees the panic flaring in my chest as my carefully-controlled world descends into chaos or the agonizing oppression that weighs me down when too happy becomes so, so sad. I’m guessing that […]

  homegrownjournal

  June 2, 2022

  2022, June, Storytellers

  2 Corinthians 12:9, Anxiety, Depression, Eaglecrest Counseling Center, God, Jesus, Joann Weston, Mental Health, Prayer, quiet + kin, Satan, Suicide, Tara Hathcock

• Brooke Rathbun

  

  In 2016, I was living a different life. Had you asked me then where I saw myself in five years, my plan would look nothing like the one the Lord was laying out for me. At the time, I let anxiety, fear, and anger rule my life. I was a self-proclaimed atheist, after being raised […]

  homegrownjournal

  November 6, 2021

  2021, November, Storytellers

  Brooke Rathbun, Counseling, Counselors, Domestic Abuse, God, Jesse Rathbun, Missouri, Mom, Nurse, Ozarks Technical Community College, Paraplegic, Springfield, Suicide