5 Reasons To Look Up And Be Hopeful
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

5 Reasons To Look Up And Be Hopeful

Know that no matter how much emotional and mental pain you are in, someone out there is thinking about you. They accept you for who you are, they don't care how you wore your makeup that day, what you thought you said that might have sounded 'stupid' or 'bad'. You are accepted for who you are as a beautiful, human being.

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My Weight Loss and Gain Journey
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

My Weight Loss and Gain Journey

I remember in 2007, I was a very insecure girl, not confident and always had issues with my own body. I compared my own image to other girls. I believed and told myself I had the 'worst' body in high school, no matter how much I would eat, my body seemed to never gain weight.

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Dear Little Suzanne, What I Should Have Told You When You Were Younger
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Dear Little Suzanne, What I Should Have Told You When You Were Younger

Been wanting to post this one for a long time now, but the title idea just been sitting in my notes app for ages. Although I'm feeling really vulnerable, weak in the mind, body and soul recently, I want to try and use my own energies to making thoughtful, and genuine mental health content from now on, even it means sometimes posting every few months. My blog will always still be here for you all to access, no matter how much I feel I am struggling financially to maintain it anymore. It's a service I want to donate my time and money to.

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How I Was "Let Out" From Psychiatric Ward Without Taking Any Meds
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

How I Was "Let Out" From Psychiatric Ward Without Taking Any Meds

I was recently hospitalised down in the psychiatric ward. Again. This isn't a secret guide or anything like that if you're purely interested in how "getting out" of the Psychiatric Ward, it's just my experience and each case and person is different from each other. I just want to give a few points on how I made it out of the psychiatric ward without taking no medications at all.

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How Being A Model Nearly Killed Me
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How Being A Model Nearly Killed Me

We all know that the modelling industry is all very superficial. We all know that models wear a lot of makeup, get their hair done to near-perfect and their look gets transformed when they are doing a photoshoot, particularly. But do we know the impacts of being a model have on our mental health? We flip through magazines, scroll through those beautiful, "perfect"-bodied women on their Instagrams endlessly (oh well I'm guilty for it at least) and don't realise that we're unconsciously making our self-esteem on ourselves worse?

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Confessions Of A University Disability Student
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

Confessions Of A University Disability Student

I accepted the past and know that there was no turning back (I don't live by regrets) in telling the GP seven or eight years ago that I've been feeling "suicidal", have a loss of appetite and my sleeping pattern has been getting worse and worse. I simply diagnosed myself with "Depression" during that time when I was nineteen years old. I had been failing my University subjects for nursing, that the next year or so, I was finally excluded from the program and school.

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Dating A Girl With A Mental Illness
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

Dating A Girl With A Mental Illness

Make her feel beautiful every day you see her. Tell her that she's beautiful. Don't judge her for the cycles and seasons she goes through. Believe that part of her recovery is you being there with her through the storm. Understand and listen to her feelings and emotions. Don't be quick to judge her and tell her to snap out of it. Don't tell her to change her way of thinking.

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Being Torn Between Two Cultures
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

Being Torn Between Two Cultures

"Where are you from?" - someone asks me for the first time in our first meeting. I stutter for a bit at the answer, trying to quickly process in my head whether to say if I'm Australian or Vietnamese.

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3 Reasons Why I Wanted To Die
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3 Reasons Why I Wanted To Die

Life isn't easy. We all know that. We have to work hard towards our goals and if we have any at the time. It sometimes phases me that for someone like me who have all these problems that it can sometimes be easier to die and end it all. Yes, I have attempted suicide before. I first hit myself with a rock against my head when I was 14. Didn't pass out or anything. It hurt, and it stopped me there. And I'm glad it did. I have so much to live for now.

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3 Mistakes I Made In The Psychiatric Ward
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3 Mistakes I Made In The Psychiatric Ward

I feel I haven't written and been keeping up to date with my mental health blogposts/videos lately. So I'm trying my best tonight to squeeze out a story for you guys. I want to say that my experiences in the psychiatric/mental health ward was definitely different to everyone else's. Everyone goes through different experiences each day and respond to it differently. There were some ways I regret of doing/thinking while I was down in the ward:

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3 Things My Good Friends Say When I'm In A Manic Episode
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

3 Things My Good Friends Say When I'm In A Manic Episode

Understanding someone with a mental illness/es is a hard one. It takes a lifetime for someone to understand someone else's condition I would say. You don't just meet someone and the person with the condition tells you about their struggles and you say you understand what they're going through. Unless you've been in similar situations such as hospital admissions and similar diagnoses but even that there's not full understanding in my opinion.

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4 Signs That I'm In A Manic Episode
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4 Signs That I'm In A Manic Episode

Friends, this post is to help you understand me better maybe, and perhaps help you recognise when I'm in an episode. It is also for me to document a bit of what's happened in the last couple of days as a reflection as well as it being therapeutic for me. In the above video, I mentioned that I have been diagnosed with depression, schizophrenia and bipolar.

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Why I Have Failed As A Christian
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Why I Have Failed As A Christian

No one is perfect, let's not deny that. We all have our imperfections. Or could we say we are all imperfectly perfect. I know I have failed (not miserably) as a Christian in so many ways. I go by day-to-day thinking sometimes what I should have, could have done to make or have a better Christian/spiritual life. I repeatedly tell myself that everytime I have a problem with my spiritual life I will change myself to make it better but no, that's never the case.

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How God Changed My Life
Suzanne Dang Suzanne Dang

How God Changed My Life

Religion. Denominations. God. What is God? How does God help with one's life? How does God let catastrophes and sad world events happen? There are many more questions that a pre-believer, new believer or even other existing Christians ask God all the time. I did not accept God into my life until late 2013 or so. Before that, I was just an ordinary girl, but I am still I feel.

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