Acknowledging Children’s Mental Health

We 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 […]

Living with Schizoaffective Depressive Disorder – Jeremiah’s story

September 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 […]

World Mental Health Day 2020

One 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 […]

Living with Schizophrenia- Celia’s story

Hey, 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 […]

Learning to live again – Steve’s story

Approximately 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 […]

Living with trauma and mental illness – May’s story

Living 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, […]

Living with OCD – Ron’s story

I 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 […]

Depression and anxiety – Basic facts and how to fight them during this pandemic

Today, 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 […]

Living with Borderline Personality Disorder – Andrea’s story

Since forever I have suffered with mental health difficulties. Around the age of nine years old, is my first recollection of what I believe was a BPD episode, screaming in the back of the car like a banshee about how ‘my head was going to explode.’…it was probably just a headache but I remember at […]

Transformation – Chloe’s story

I was going to college when I was 19 years old just like any other girl I was curious about boys, parties and fun. It was during this time that I started to break out with acne. I went a long time suffering with skin infections for years so a doctor prescribed me Accutane. I […]