Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Emily Dear Ed, This is goodbye. I’m done with you. For so long, you consumed me. My life revolved around restricting, calorie counting, purging, isolating, working out, perfectionism, body checking, cutting, suicide letters, and hating every inch of myself. I was in so much pain and my life felt Continue Reading
By Anonymous So I’ve survived another year. Today I was celebrating my 16th birthday. Correction, my family were celebrating it. For me, and many others with mental illness a birthday is not something to be celebrated, instead it is a time used to reflect on the past year and worry Continue Reading
By Chaz White Caution: This post discusses suicide and self-harm but from a hopeful stance. So much of my life has been shrouded in darkness, consumed by thoughts I couldn’t control and overwhelmed by anxiety. However, piece by piece, year by year, I kept progressing towards the very simple idea Continue Reading
By Kelley Gonzalez The depression is everywhere. leaking on the floors, staining the walls, dripping off everything i touch. Woke up this morning. Felt fine til my feet hit the floor. Stepped in some depression. Can’t get it off my foot so it follows me all morning while i try to get Continue Reading
By Anonymous April 29th 2015. I remember that day like it was yesterday. April 29th 2015 is the date of my first suicide attempt and hospitalization due to mental illness. I was 14. I went to school like it was a normal day. I went to all my lessons. And then I collapsed. Continue Reading
By Anonymous Where does mine start? Aged 18. I thought i was pretty invincible. I had hitch hiked to a nightclub because i finished work late, that wasn’t the problem. A friend arranged a lift home for me, except they never took me home but back to a house on Continue Reading