Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Taylor Tara You cannot explain it. Why? Because we do not want to listen. All we hear is blah blah blah. To a non-believer it is an excuse for someone to be lazy. Someone who just enjoys complaining. A pain in the arse. It makes us walk in a Continue Reading
By Natalie Patrick When you married the love of your life, you vowed to love and support them even in sickness and in health, for better or for worse. It’s guaranteed that you’ll endure troubling times. But when your spouse is diagnosed with a mental illness, you may not understand Continue Reading
By Sara-Jane Morphew Adulting is hard, we know this, but having to do proper adulting is something else!! It all started when my darling husband developed man flu after getting drowning wet working on some animal enclosure or something zooie outside in the rain all day. He had a high Continue Reading
Think Positive, Stay Active and Get Ready to Fight Arthritis By Ravi Experiencing pain can be the toughest part of arthritis. It not only breaks the positive spirit of people, but also depresses them over time. In conditions like arthritis, the pain is excruciating, and the result could be the Continue Reading
By Damen Holmes A few things that are close to my heart right now I began self-harming when I was about 13. I’m not sure what put the idea in my head, but I started, and for a time it helped. At first I did my best to try and hide Continue Reading
By Anonymous I don’t always think people talk about mental health issues enough, yet awareness is so important. People might not always know what’s going on with you. It’s not always something you can see from the outside. Because of this, I think a lot of people may not always Continue Reading
By Zoe For months, I had put down how I was feeling to ‘Just one of those days, overworked, people just get on my nerves’. It had never crossed my mind that depression had hit me at full force, until my work friend pulled me aside and expressed her worries Continue Reading
By Ellyse Rafferty There will come a point in almost all of our lives when we will encounter someone who is struggling with their mental health. It might be a close friend, a family member or even a work colleague. It might be a short-term issue or more long-term. These Continue Reading
By Gabriela Being a teenager suffering in silence from mental illness sucks. Waking up every day with a mental illness is just as painful – if not more – than a physical illness. It’s confusing, debilitating, and inconceivable at times that this could be happening to me. Although I am Continue Reading
By Gabriela First off, let me just say hello to this new world I have plunged myself into. In writing, I hope to flicker a light inside of you that will allow you to take this journey with me in finding a way out of the darkness. I would like Continue Reading
By Kristine Barney While attending Journalism school at UW-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I began dating my best friend my first semester. I was happy and excited to be a part of a college. But when I started to suffer with anxiety, I thought I had to suffer in silence. Making friends was Continue Reading
By Victoria Jane Starting to heal again You can tell when you are starting to heal again when you put on a stone. Rediscover your former self again, no longer give a shit what other people think of you, no longer feel like you are losing the plot, know your Continue Reading