Educate or Suffer My Wrath I hate waking up in the morning. Every day is a constant struggle but mornings are a defining moment. When I open my eyes, fate is decided for me. Which side of the Bipolar spectrum will I be on today? I never get to choose. It chooses for me. What [...]
For as long as I can remember, I was always the nervous kid. You know the type; the one that couldn’t spend an entire night at a sleepover without calling her parents. The one that feared rule breaking and things that meant taking risks like roller coasters and sneaking out. The one that feared life [...]
Overwhelming Emotions I don’t know whether I’ve really talked about my connections with Stigma Fighters before, but they’re important (to me, at least) and related to recent happenings. In early January 2015 I was offered the position of Executive Assistant, and I accepted. Then in early September 2015 I received an email from Allie asking [...]
SOMETIMES YOU EAT THE BEAR, AND WELL, SOMETIMES HE EATS YOU BY LARRY WEINER It was over six years ago that I found myself in a psych ward, my long struggle with depression having come to a head. This wouldn’t be the last time, but there was always the desire to get better and that [...]
Why does he hate me? Why do I care so much that he hates me? He's my father-in-law. I always thought he would love me and I would love him back. For the longest time, I felt that way. I don't know how long he has felt this way though. He thinks I'm a puppet [...]
The world was spinning again. It was as though I could hear everything and nothing all at once. A constant buzzing of sound. A voice that I didn’t recognize was trying to explain something, but what was that voice trying to say? It was important, very important. Why didn’t they understand? Why was she looking [...]
To The Journey: My Road to Understanding Mental Illness Despite many people perceiving bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses as a struggle or hardship, over time, I have come to embrace the life lessons that they can teach. I would briefly like to elucidate and describe these lessons. I have truly been touched by a [...]
This short story is about not being a prisoner to mental illness. I myself suffer from mental illness (bipolar depression) and it has been a year and a half since I attempted to take my own life. Every day is a struggle and our illness should not hold us back from living the lives we [...]
There's been a lot of talk recently about the stigma of mental illness. There's only one way to erase a stigma, and that's by shining a light on individual stories. This is mine ... I have Bipolar Disorder. I first showed signs of the disease in my teens, but wasn't diagnosed until last year. Don't [...]
“How did I get here?” It’s a question I used to obsess over, feeling distraught over what I felt were the world’s standards for my age versus what I had actually accomplished at that point in time. I grieved how much I felt was stolen from me because of my mental illness and wondered if [...]
