Cede Dawn Chronicles

Author: Cede Dawn

  • Mental Illness is a REAL Disease

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    Most mental illnesses aren’t something you can just will or pray away. You wouldn’t tell your loved ones or their caregivers to just ask God or want harder for their/their loved one’s cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, arthritis, HIV, dementia, dravet syndrome, sanfillipo syndrome,  etc… to go away! You’d advise them to continue seeing…

  • A Mom Fighting To Survive Severe Depression

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    You see splashing… Playing… Truly I’m thrashing… Waning… Appearance of fun… Conceals the drowning… Stay right outside the blaze of the sun… Fake smile, no frowning… Hidden in the shade… Is a dark secret… Everything she is fades… Tears so frequent… A pain so great… You couldn’t imagine… It’ll never be too late… She’ll slay…

  • “Profound Autism”?

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    What is Profound Autism? Does it exist? Why or Why Not? This is a trending question amongst the autistic community and its caregivers. And I’m no expert, just a Mom with a child who has Level 3 Non Verbal Autism with Co Occurring Severe Intellectual Disability and Severe Expressive Receptive Language Disorder -aka one presentation…

  • Unplug To Reset… when to do it and how?

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    “How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?” I know it’s time to unplug when I begin to get easily irritated… you know, when the little inconveniences start to feel like big, mountain sized mole hills… the kind of mole hill you’d find in a storybook……

  • Suicidal Ideation

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    Have you ever felt like you’ve had enough? Enough to, just, end it all? I have and it’s an extremely defeating feeling. Especially when you have tiny little humans who depend on you for their own little lives to keep moving forward peacefully. But this “feeling” isn’t something you can control… it doesn’t have an…

  • This is a good one…

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    “Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?” Past… 100%… It haunts me. The future, however, is never guaranteed.

  • Unhealthy Love Cycle Full Circle 💞

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    Not everyone who hurts who, doesn’t love you. Sometimes people who say they love you but cause you pain do, in fact, love you… but they aren’t capable of loving you properly because of their own internal damage from the last… I know it’s easier to believe those who cause someone so much turmoil don’t…

  • This one’s easy..

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    “Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.” My Papaw is the greatest man I have ever had the pleasure of meeting! He is everything anyone could need and want in a man! He set the standards high for me at a very young age in what I should expect from a male counterpart…