Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com
Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.
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The Struggle Continues
One thing that never seems to cease in life, well my life anyway, is my inability to prove my capability independent of the snide remarks of those around me. There’s more often than not someone ready to tell me why what I’m doing will not work or why I should be cautious, but never someone…
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Trust
Given my overactive and often morbid imagination my mind often plays out the worst case scenarios of even the best circumstances. So it’s easy to imagine exactly how torturous and depressing my thoughts can be when the odds are stacked against me. However, it’s precisely my knowledge of this inherent morbidity of mine that I…
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Writer’s Block
After feeling passionate about wanting to write about these blurbs that have been plaguing me for so long now, it seems as if the chatter in my head has reached fever pitch to the point where very little is actually filtering through to the conscious mind. I have so many thoughts racing through my head,…
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Suicide
I don’t think people commit suicide just because they’ve given up on life…that would be too shallow a reason to do something so destructive. I think they commit suicide because they’ve given up hope of ever being significant in the lives of those they hold dear. Of course, there’s a huge crowd out there that…
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Thoughting too much
I started out on this blog intent on not turning it into a negative rant about what erks me in life, but rather to write blurbs about what’s quirky in life…I lose focus so easily…so here’s to another attempt at getting this right. I’ve chosen to recede from the rat race but not from life.…
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Resilience
Seeing a beautiful soul regain its wings is the most rewarding and fulfilling sight ever. The resilience of the human spirit is only ever dowsed by the deliberately destructive behaviour of our own choices. If we allow the spirit to be guided without dictation but instead through true reflection and trust in the One who…
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Cynic’s Paradise
I stumbled across a website recently that claims to be a sanctuary for cynics. I think they got it all wrong…there is no sanctuary for cynics, only platforms from which their exaggerated attempts to impress others while unintentionally exposing their desperation to be acceptable by those they admire but despise because they’ve never been deemed…
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Who Cares?
When afliction hits me, it’s so easy to slip into a state of self-pity, or more accurately self-loathing and dismiss everything of significance as nothing at all, simply because it seems like no one cares at all. I’ve often wondered how faith in a greater power may or may not affect this state of mind.…