Stomping Out The Stigma of Mental Illness
How I have survived years of trauma and changed my story to change my life… It is a never ending battle living with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), and I haveunfortunately suffered from it most of my life. I can look back now and have a little chuckle to myself at all the people […]
Read More Surviving PTSD – Jenna’s storyI wish I could tell you when exactly it started, but I can’t. My memory is patchy at best and I have many what I call “Kodak moments” of my life, snapshots but no real context. I didn’t even know during my 20’s why I couldn’t remember most of my childhood. Those times where your […]
Read More Living with Complex PTSD – Claire’s storyWe shouldn’t need a single month to raise awareness for mental health and illness, but we have May. The first week of May focuses on the mental health of children, with May 7th being the official “Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day.” The mental health of children has always been important to me. I worked twelve […]
Read More Acknowledging Children’s Mental HealthSeptember of 2019 was the start of the overwhelming audio and visual delusions. I had experienced manic episodes and psychotic reactions to things in my life due to trauma and the environment I was raised in from an early age. However my parents never tried to get me medical attention and my illness gradually worsened […]
Read More Living with Schizoaffective Depressive Disorder – Jeremiah’s storyOne in five people will be diagnosed with a mental illness but it is how you choose to live with your diagnoses that will set you apart from the rest. I struggled since childhood and was not diagnosed with anxiety and depression until age twenty-three. It was seven years later that I was officially diagnosed […]
Read More World Mental Health Day 2020Hey, I’m Celia and I live with schizoaffective disorder depressive type. Schizophrenia runs in my family. Everything peaked for me when I was 27 years old. I spent 8 or so months acutely psychotic. The first 6 months were spent without any psychiatric help. I was over 1,000 miles away from everyone I knew. I […]
Read More Living with Schizophrenia- Celia’s storyApproximately 800,000 people die world wide from suicide every year, but what you don’t hear about are the number of people who survive their attempts. Today on World Suicide Prevention Awareness Day, you’ll read about one man’s attempt and the mission he’s on today to stop additional deaths. One day in September of 1987, Steve […]
Read More Learning to live again – Steve’s storyLiving with mental illness is hard. I’m not talking “it’s been a bad day” hard I’m talking hide under the bed and pray the monsters can’t find you hard. There is a certain darkness that can’t be escaped when your brain is the part of your body that illness is attacking. The stigma is inescapable, […]
Read More Living with trauma and mental illness – May’s storyI suffer from OCD – but not the typical OCD you’d expect. Just as there are different types of depression, like seasonal and postpartum depression, there are different versions of OCD, some more nefarious than others. Personally, my OCD gremlin isn’t as much of a douchebag as others’ little demons, some of whom have driven […]
Read More Living with OCD – Ron’s storyToday, people all over the world are suffering from the immense effect of COVID – 19 outbreaks. Doctors and medical researchers are working day and night to find a cure for this pandemic. But it will probably take more time and effort to get a solution to this problem. Until then, people around the world […]
Read More Depression and anxiety – Basic facts and how to fight them during this pandemic