Why Is My PTSD Getting Worse Again? Living With Trauma Years Later
Why does PTSD feel worse again after years of recovery? A personal look at PTSD triggers, setbacks, and living with trauma years later.
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How Your Past Affects Your Current Relationships
Learn how past experiences can shape trust, conflict, emotional reactions and coping habits—and how greater self-awareness can help you build healthier relationships.
What Helps With Depression? Finding My Way Back After Six Months in the Dark
After six months of relentless depression, I’m finally beginning to feel like myself again. In this post, I explore what may contribute to depression, how PTSD can complicate it, and the evidence-based things that can help us start moving forward.
Is Social Media Making Us Lonely? Why “Protecting Your Peace” Can Become Isolation
Is social media making us lonely? Explore how protecting your peace can become isolation—and why human connection still matters.
Finding Gratitude and Purpose While Living With Disability
Can gratitude survive living with disability, PTSD and depression? A raw reflection on finding purpose and the strength to keep going.
Top 10 Mental Health Blogs For July 2026
Discover the 10 mental health blogs that resonated most with readers in July 2026, along with Jonathan’s personal pick and five meaningful posts that deserve more attention.
Depression and Writer’s Block: When the Words Stop Coming
For the first time in seven years, the words are no longer coming easily. This deeply personal post explores depression, writer’s block, PTSD, loneliness and what happens when the purpose that once helped you survive no longer feels like enough to help you live. Maybe stepping back is not giving up. Maybe it is how a new chapter begins.
Living With PTSD: Service Dogs, Isolation and the Need for Human Connection
Living with PTSD can make ordinary moments feel overwhelming. This personal reflection explores noise sensitivity, service dogs, isolation, relationships and why consistent human connection matters.
“I Hate Being Human”: Living With Depression, PTSD and Loneliness
A raw reflection on living with depression, PTSD and loneliness when life feels directionless. Jonathan explores lost relationships, fading purpose and the exhausting search for connection—while holding on to the hope that even the darkest emotional storms can eventually pass.
Letting Go After an Abusive Relationship Without Excusing the Past
Letting go after an abusive relationship does not excuse the past. It means healing the anger, fear, and self-doubt so you can take your life back. How to Change Your Past: Letting Go of Past Relationship Pain In a lot of ways, we live in real time just as much as we can overthink the […]