It’s been 9 weeks since I started joining the group counseling session for sexual violence survivors. My 9 week-session was held two days ago. Our psychologist leads this session. There were total 5 survivors included me. We use our nicknames, not real names for privacy. We always start reading a poem and talking about our […]
Hello, world! Hope you find this well. I cannot believe that it has been over 6 months since I posted my last blog in April. Time flies away. Winter is just around the corner in Seoul, South Korea. It has been pretty exciting and inspiring during my absence on the internet. I made conscious efforts […]
It’s been a few crazy weeks. I would be up for over 40 hours and sleep for over 12 hours next day. Started taking a sleeping pill last Friday. Yes, it’s a prescribed one. My psychiatrist finally got convinced how awfully exhausting and upsetting it has been for me with sleep deprivation. She was concerned […]
One of diagnosis by a clinical psychologist I received from a psychiatrist is personality disorder with histrionic tendency. It immediately made me feel bad to be diagnosed with personality disorder. But I told myself that healing would start beginning with self-acceptance of the problems and how much I wanted to get better and happier. I […]
I did some research online to learn about Dissociative Amnesia today. It made me feel uncomfortable to accept that I have mental health issues but also realized without self-acceptance, I would not get better. I think it’s NOT shameful to have experience mental health issues and to seek for help and solutions for healing. I […]
I had a video Skype call with my friend, David in San Francisco. He asked me about my mood and I told him the truth that I had emotional ups and downs. And I talked about my visit with a psychiatrist so that she would do hypnotherapy regarding my somatization disorder and my psychology of […]
I have been sick since yesterday evening. I barely slept for 4 hours yesterday morning because I was up until 5 a.m. job searching and emailing my resume and CV to Korean internet startups and left home before 9 a.m. for 10 a.m. appointment with meet my volunteer counselor at Catholic Psycho-spiritual counseling center in […]
It’s past midnight so I am 42 minutes behind. Sorry. I was busy chatting with S. He said “Hi!” to me on Skype to my surprise. I am usually the one saying “Hi!” to him without his timely response. Lucky! Here is my history with S. I met S. last June in Palo Alto […]
I saw sunshine this afternoon when I woke up. Was up until 4 a.m. and got up around 12:30 p.m. It’s still somewhat chilly inside my studio even though I am wearing thick socks. Wait, just turned on the heater. I didn’t leave home today saving about 5 dollars for public transportation rides. Can’t help […]
It has been snowing all day in Seoul. It is grey, wet and dark outside. I managed to cook myself late brunch and dinner with everything I could find in the refrigerator ; dumplings, seaweed, bean sprouts and fish cake. Had two bananas to take care of my craving for sweets. Made one instant coffee […]
You Are Not Alone 