Trigger warning - sexual abuse My name is Brittany, and I’m 26 years old. My start in this world wasn’t the best and was rough but I didn't let that determine who I was or what I was capable of. I was able to fight my way through life, landed on top many times and [...]
I just did the ultimate Marie Kondo yesterday. I deleted my Facebook account after over 10 years on it. I immediately felt a calm I have not felt since the mid-2000s. Which was exactly what I had been hoping for. I hadn’t enjoyed the social media giant for the last few years but felt it [...]
My Father is a Man of the Woods, and my Mother a Woman of the Wind. Their record collection, now combined and collecting dust on a shelf in the basement, is organized alphabetically and chronologically according to each artist’s history of creating sound. It begins somewhere around ABBA and plods along to Point Z, where [...]
Come As You Are For #NEDAwareness Week NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association) is hosting Come As You Are for the week of February 25 - March 3, #NEDAwareness Week. The organization works tirelessly to help individuals and families affected by eating disorders. NEDA aims to be a “catalyst for prevention, cures, and access to quality [...]
When do you get back to normal? Maybe the better question is whether or not there even is such a thing as normal. Society tends to make us believe that we should fit into standards they’ve defined in order to be considered a part of the status quo. But what does that even mean? [...]
It has taken me over four decades to get a proper diagnosis and treatment. Here’s how the journey went. I knew when I was a child that there was something wrong with me. That was all too clear. I was told I was “too sensitive,” which meant to me that there was something [...]
The past year has been quite a struggle and while we have made improvements, it is far from over yet. Raising a child with ODD brings stress and exhaustion as well as great disappointment in the mental health services that are being offered. The understanding and improvements that we have made so far were [...]
I still lay awake at night wondering why no one hears me. Why everyone is so indifferent and numb to my plight of depression. Everyone like to say ‘you are not alone’ ‘all you had to do was reach out for help’ I did that and no one listened nor acknowledged my situation. I survived [...]
My name is Nyaruai Gitonga. I will be 30 in February and I live in Nairobi Kenya. I have been rather morbid all my life, I’ve been fascinated by death more so curious on what the feeling just before one leaves this world is like. I took it as a legitimate curiosity which allowed me [...]
If I hold my arms out, I can tell you which way is east and which is west. I can point up and down to tell you that the sky is “north,” and the ground is “south.” Behind the wheel, that changes. “Head east” does not make sense to me. I have to think extremely [...]
