I’m drowning. I’m drowning and I’m terrified. The water is deep, dark, and cold. I’m so close to my house, but there’s nobody around to help me. I reach out, my white hand breaking the dark water, grasping for someone, anyone. But there’s no one. My hand falls, rippling the water as it goes back [...]
Jesus isn’t an anti-depressant. There is some sort of misconception among Christians that faith and prayer to Jesus is some sort of cure-all for mental illness. Instead of viewing mental illness as a physiological illness, they treat it like a spiritual one that the mystic powers of Jesus alone can heal. Now, I’m not knocking [...]
Let's have a little chat about co-morbidity, shall we? Many people with mental health conditions receive multiple diagnoses. I am one of those people! In fact, I have 19 diagnoses total if we include my physical health problems. Co-morbidity is common. According to the ADAA, almost half of people diagnosed with an anxiety disorder [...]
She began by saying how sorry she was that she had to tell me over the phone. I had canceled my appointment that morning by text, and she had pushed back—asking, in not so many words, if I was positive I couldn’t make it. It was unusual; I have autoimmune conditions with frequent illness and [...]
My Name is Ngoni from Zimbabwe and I have been dealing with depression for some years now. It can be quite debilitating. I have had days when I felt so low I stayed in bed for days. The thoughts that come when in the middle of such an episode can be very dark because it [...]
In 2013, years after being diagnosed with a handful of mental health disorders including PTSD and depression, I finally decided to find a doctor with the hopes of alleviating the state of my mental health condition and get my life back on track. I went on a quest for healing, where I longed for [...]
Living As A Highly Sensitive Person & Learning To Manage Your Mind I've been a highly sensitive person with anxiety, and depressive moods my whole life. But I’ve never been officially diagnosed. It should have been obvious from the beginning. My parents moved house to send me to a safe junior school. My first school [...]
Depression and any other mental illness doesn't care about how old you are. Teenagers suffer from mental illness like adults do. Just because you’re a teenager doesn’t mean that your depression is a phase. Teenagers can have clinical depression and it is extremely real. It isn’t fair to judge them that way, to believe they can't have mental illness [...]
Counsel me. Tell me what to do. I want you to be present for me. I need you to tell me what to do because I can't figure it out. I'm lost, and you're my sheep, guiding me through the field. Here in this dark cave, there's no flashlight. Underneath the moon, I've never seen anything [...]
I recall sitting in her office. She was warm and had a lovely smile. My childhood therapist. I didn’t know her name and I had no idea why I was there but my parents took me to her every week after nursery school. I played with G.I. Joe’s small plastic figurines; they were always saving [...]
