Grace and Guts I have a recurring dream—a nightmare, really—about being locked inside a glass house. The house has no curtains or furniture, and any dividing walls inside are also made of glass. All the lights are on in the house; it’s midnight. I can’t see out into the world, but the world can see me. [...]
My Life As An Obsessive by Lauren Osborn I hated my psychiatrist, his smug, clean-shaven face like a map that hadn’t been colored in. Photos of his immaculate wife and his pristine children glared at me from inside their well-polished frames. “Tell me about these thoughts,” he said. But where could I begin? How do [...]
Hello my name is Liam Kennedy and I have suffered with mental health problems for seven years but I am currently into eighteen months of recovery. Through my period of recovery I have become so much stronger and have got my confidence back and then some. I don’t see myself as being stronger than any other mental [...]
I shared my story here before, about 7 months ago – back in May, but things have changed since then. This is kind of an anniversary post, and a pretty substantial change from them. Today I am two years clean of any kind of self-harm. I cannot say that I never want to anymore. The [...]
I was 35 the day everything changed. I had a happy marriage, two perfect little girls, an education and respectable career, good friends and a good church that I was plugged into. I was a glass-half-full kinda girl living a pretty darn good life. And then the flood happened. Everything in my life now seems [...]
I was eight years old when I realized that something was wrong with me. Things that came so easily to other people (raising my hand in class, climbing stairs, brushing hair, running) were suddenly the hardest part of my day. “Doesn’t this hurt you?” I would say to my friends, as we stood at the [...]
I have always been a thinker, a bit of a lonely wolf with just a few close friends. My family says that when I was younger I was always happy and full of energy, but that changed when I became a teenager. It was probably there I started to have something that is called Generalized [...]
Writing helps me process my emotions and feelings. I’ve had a lot of growth over the pastfew years, but there are times my secret dark cloud of sorrow comes crashing back into mylife. Speaking your truth also means acknowledging when you struggle and when you fall flaton your face, leaving you stumbling to stand up [...]
Hi, my name is Sarah Fader and I have mental illness. I have lived with panic disorder and depression for my entire adult life. I began having panic attacks as a teenager and they continued into adulthood. I am a mother of two beautiful children. I am a sister, a daughter, a friend and a [...]
So how does a 34-year-old male, who is shy, depressed, and suicidal, begin to address his pessimistic views on life? It has only been four months since I was discharged from a twelve-day voluntary stay in the Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. If I had not walked into the [...]
