What the hell are all these feelings? By Aaron Smith What are these things in our chest, derived from somewhere deep in our psyche? We call them happiness, anger, sadness, joy. We feel these things as the days go by, but what are they exactly? Are they just arbitrary spasms of brain chemistry? Are they [...]
I don't want anyone to know that I want to die. It's embarrassing all the thoughts that run through my head. I'm afraid of half of them and I don't want to say them out loud because that makes them real. So I pretend that everything is fine. I keep my head down, do my work, [...]
I've been suffering from depression since my early twenties. I've been fighting with it, I've been angry at it for ruining my life, I've tried to embrace it as part of me, I've tried to accept it by actually accepting myself with the dark side and all. It hasn't been easy, that's for sure. From [...]
He had a hold on me from the beginning. When I looked into his eyes I realized that I wanted to be with him. Little did I know who he was inside, broken, abused fragmented. He was someone who needed to be taken care of. But he didn’t ask me to take care of him [...]
I would say, the most profound relationship I have had in my life is with the one that made me so familiar with my fingertips and the acid in the throat. The relationship that makes me feel guilty for putting any type of food in my body. The one that draws me in everytime something [...]
Hello, my name is John A Wilson and I struggled with severe depression and suicidal thoughts from 2008, at the age of 26, when I had just graduated as a part 1 architect but with not one vacancy for a job In my locality and unable to move because I was engaged at the time. [...]
“Depression.” It’s a word that's tossed around a lot these days, yet it isn’t fully understood. What most people don’t understand about being depressed is that there are different kinds of depression and different stages of it. We all get depressed. Our moods fluctuate. We’re only human. Some of us, however, can’t as easily control [...]
November 2012, the month I nearly didn’t survive. Attending Uni in Wagga was meant to be a dream come true, studying the degree I had always wanted. Well my first 2 years of uni were a little bit more of a struggle than I thought. I never thought it would happen, but I got homesick. [...]
Money Can Prevent People From Getting Help By Sarah Fader, CEO, Stigma Fighters In the United States, it can be difficult to find help for your mental health issues unless you are wealthy. Poor people who don't have access to private insurance have a hard time finding therapists or psychiatrists because most competent clinicians only take [...]
In 1990, when I was 15 years old I had my first depression. At first I was just a “grumpy teenager”, but soon it was clear to my parents that this was not “normal”. At that time people did not really speak about depression or mental health. Not in my village in the Netherlands, anyway. [...]
