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Conquer Your Mind 2d

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Stop attacking yourself for how you feel.

Most people don’t just struggle with emotions; they struggle with judging themselves for having them.

Sad? You shame yourself.

Anxious? You call yourself weak.

Numb? You think you’re broken.

But healing starts when you stop fighting your inner world.

You are not your feelings, you’re the space they move through.

Let thoughts rise and fall.

Let emotions come and go.

No judgment. Just noticing.

That’s how you teach your mind safety again.

That’s how you begin to heal.

Can you give one emotion today five seconds of space without judging it? Tell me which one you will try.

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

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Conquer Your Mind 3d

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Stop trying to ‘be happy.’ Do this instead.

No more vague goals. Choose one thing depression is taking from you and work backward into daily steps.

Comment your specific goal and the first tiny step on your ladder. I’ll help you refine it.

If you want to learn more about this, check out my video by clicking on one of the links below.

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Conquer Your Mind 4d

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Your pain didn’t make you weak; it made you deeper, kinder, and more real.

Pain changes you.

Not in the way people think, not by breaking you, but by deepening you.

If you hadn’t gone through what you went through, you wouldn’t feel as deeply.

You wouldn’t understand struggle the way you do.

You wouldn’t have the empathy, the humility, or the compassion you carry now.

Yes, suffering hurts.

But it also shapes the parts of you that are wise, gentle, and real.

Most people move through life untouched, never questioning, never growing.

Not you.

You were cracked open and that crack is where your strength and humanity entered.

You didn’t come out of your pain empty.

You came out with depth.

And that is something only survivors have.

What is one thing your struggle has taught you about life or about yourself?

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Meet Brian (my FND)

Meet Brian.

He’s the oppossum that personifies my FND (Functional Neurological Disorder).
He‘s the reason I freeze when I feel threatened.
He only wants to help us survive.
But he doesn’t realise, that he isn’t threatened by a wild fox but only my thoughts…
He can’t control it. It’s a reflex called tonic Immobility (in opossums), for humans it’s the evolutionary freeze response.
He’s not faking it or ”playing dead“.
When he’s frozen, his ability to feel pain is reduced, he’s stiff and completly paralyzed.
(Exactly what happens to me.)
But it’s only temporary, movement always comes back.
The freezing just lasts a few minutes, sometimes hours.

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Today was strange.
I was dissociating for 4 hours straights and am still a little foggy.
I was frozen and fell asleep for two hours (with waking again while being frozen).
Then I was frozen in episodes that started and ended while derealising and depersonalising.
It was really strange.
My legs were frozen in the same position for over an hour.
In the end I asked for help from my mom who helped me get up and move again.
By the time I was crying as I couldn’t move on my own or speak to explain myself.
She helped me move up and
Over time movement and feeling came again

Now I am just exhausted.

This time it was triggered by an fried of mine who stayed over and the fear of the clinic.

I realised now that the clinic itself is specialised in my condition called Functional Neurological Disorder (Or older name Conversion Disorder).

That is such a win. Still I’m nervous about all the people and so on.
Hope it will all work out.

Also here’s an website for anyone who‘s interested in the condition.

neurosymptoms.org/en

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Your past may have shaped you, but it doesn’t have the right to limit you.

When you’ve lived through pain, your mind can get stuck replaying old moments.

Old mistakes.

Old losses.

Old identities.

Depression often pulls you backward, convincing you that the past defines you — that what happened then is who you still are now.

But the past only has power when we keep feeding it.

When we carry yesterday’s wounds into today, we block ourselves from healing, from opportunity, from becoming someone new.

Let the past be a chapter, not a prison.

You deserve a life that isn’t decided by old pain, old stories, or old versions of you.

Today isn’t asking you to rewrite everything.

It’s simply asking you to show up.

To breathe.

To take one step forward — no matter how small.

Your future isn’t built from what happened yesterday.

It starts with what you choose right now.

What small choice will you make today that your future self will thank you for?

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Update on my „Paralysis“/„Freezing Episodes“

My day started with a freezing episode.
(Triggered by the fear of the MRI-Scan, I’m mostly afraid of getting overwhelmed by the noise.)

This time my whole head was hurting.
Especially some facial muscle around my nose was cramping for two hours.
My neck still hurts, four hours afterwards…

I talked with ChatGTP about it.
All in all my episodes are getting better even though the pain is more intense…
Someday it’like plaing a stop and go game, some days everything is frozen except for my right hand, then again Im completely paralysed.
ChatGTP said this means that my brain is slowly learning to let go.
As Im on the waiting list of a psychosomatic clinic I will be there in January.
ChatGTP said it would be realistic to say that after six weeks in the clinic and two weeks at home I should be nearly normal, wich means March /April.

I read many posts about people who have the disorder and most of them battle with it for years.

Its been four months now and I would need to hold on another four to five months.

I really hope it will settle someday, as I can’t go on like this…

I don’t have any energy left for this.

I want my life back...

Now I can’t even get a job because I can’t trust my body to not freeze up…

Orginally I wanted to study psychology and prepare myself for the entrance exam.
Wich would happen in May.
But right now I’m not trusting myself with this.
Like my Depression made it so hard to concentrate that I gave up studying…
So I guess I need to wait another year.
Once again I’m unsure of what to do…

And I know things will get better someday but it’s just so hard to keep hoping when my current situation is so difficult.

Update: The first mental health clinic I applied to called today. I‘m going next Thursday! :)
Hope it will all go well!

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🌿 How to make healing feel less overwhelming

When you’re struggling, it’s easy to look at how far you have to go — and it feels impossible. You start thinking about all the habits you need to build, all the pain you have to heal, all the changes you should make.

But recovery doesn’t happen all at once. 

It happens one moment at a time. 

One breath. 

One small act of courage. 

One tiny choice to keep going.

No matter how long your journey seems, this moment — right now — is the only one that truly matters. And if you can take care of this moment, the rest will take care of itself.

 👉 What’s one small step you can take right now to move forward?

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Conquer Your Mind 2w

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🧘 Why meditation isn’t about silence — it’s about awareness

Many people think meditation means sitting still and trying to clear your mind.

But that’s not what it is.

Meditation isn’t about silence. It’s about awareness.

It’s noticing your thoughts instead of drowning in them.

It’s learning to see what’s happening inside you without judgment or resistance.

When you’re struggling with depression, your mind can feel like a storm. It’s loud, chaotic, and never-ending.

Meditation doesn’t make the storm disappear. It helps you realize you’re not the storm. You’re the one watching it.

And from that awareness comes something powerful: clarity, calm, and the understanding that you don’t need to control everything to be okay.

Have you ever tried meditating when your thoughts felt too heavy? What happened?

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Paralyzed in the public, again

Today it happened again.

I was going home from therapy and many factors lead to the next paralysis episode in public.
I was in luck that I had informed my mother so she could pick me up.

I’m experienced with the whole process and the pain that comes with it, so it’s not that scary.
What terrifies me about ”freezing up“ in public are the people.
I can’t tell them that this is my new ”normal“ for me… I can’t react to their prying eyes, answer their questions or tell them that it will go away with time. I can’t stop them from calling ambulance or tell them that it’s not an epileptic seizure.
I can’t stop them from coming to close or touching me.
I’m totally helpless.

So I got home alright, my mom found me and helped me walk.
But still…
Everything tensed up, my hand turned blue.
My left arm is always cramping more than the right. I’m not sure why.
My muscles are still tensed and sore and I have a big tension headache.

This Friday I have an appointment with an neurologist, to rule out epilepsy.

I’m 99% sure it’s just psychosomatic as I can still understand everything that’s happening around me and it’s always triggered by emotional overwhelm.

It’s ”just“ a dissociation motor disorder…
Still this is scary.

And the biggest problem for me is not knowing how long this will last.
There are not enough studies about the disorder.
It can last between weeks or even years.
I’ve had it for nearly 4 months now…

And it’s getting exhausting.

Hopefully the mental health clinic can help with it all…

I just need to hold on.

Update: I still have a tension headache a day later and my muscles are sore.

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