Stigma Fighters: Ansheeta

    I sit back in my room right now and think how can I be useful member of the society. Like many people would say it – get up and get going. It sounds so easy to just get up and start realizing your dreams. All you need is to take one step. But this is [...]

    By |2015-11-02T13:57:10-08:00November 3rd, 2015|Categories: Depression, Stigma Fighters|0 Comments

      Stigma Fighters: Kelly Burch

      My daughter was born on my father's 51st birthday. As I lay in my hospital bed watching him cradle his first grandchild, I hoped and prayed that the baby would make a difference. At the same time, I knew not to expect a miracle. Just weeks before giving birth I had been in the emergency [...]

      By |2015-11-02T08:20:03-08:00November 2nd, 2015|Categories: Stigma Fighters|1 Comment

        Stigma Fighters: Kelly Burch

        Bright and early one Monday morning my phone rang. I saw with shock that it was my dad, awake and calling before 7 a.m. Clearly something was wrong. "Could you stop by on the way to work?" he asked, sounding cheery. I sighed. I was already squeezing in a workout and still hoping to get [...]

        By |2015-10-30T14:38:06-07:00November 1st, 2015|Categories: Manic, Stigma Fighters|2 Comments

          Stigma Fighters: Shelly Buliani

          My grandmother is one of the great loves of my life. It’s a child-like love that is reckless and without boundary. As a kid, I always knew that my grandmother – Nani - loved me. While I offered cuddles, Nani offered chores. I think of it as army-style affection. You know… The cold and commanding [...]

          By |2015-10-30T14:03:18-07:00October 30th, 2015|Categories: Stigma Fighters, Uncategorized|0 Comments

            Stigma Fighters: Alba Lanuza

            I have always had what I believed to be a normal life: childhood with ice-cream and delightful summers, good grades and compliments from my teachers, slightly risky teens with a few of stupid decisions (nothing too serious), confusing enter into my twenties and just as I turned 25 I started to wake up… Nothing extremely [...]

            By |2015-10-28T14:24:28-07:00October 29th, 2015|Categories: Depression, Stigma Fighters|0 Comments

            Stigma Fighters: dm gillis

            being radicalised is not a form of insanity by dm gillis Since the tragic events unfolded in Ottawa, everyone has become a psychiatrist, claiming that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was everything from a whacko to deranged. But really, no one will ever know what his mental state was at the time of his horrible crime. At a press [...]

            By |2015-10-26T17:05:02-07:00October 28th, 2015|Categories: Stigma Fighters|0 Comments

            Stigma Fighters: dm gillis

            Take Your Meds by dm gillis FYI, telling a person who you know has a mental disability to ‘take your meds’ when you disagree with her or him, is bigotry. It’s also a cheap and lazy way to make your point in a conversation. It’s the same as calling them a psycho, a mental case, [...]

            By |2015-10-26T17:01:48-07:00October 27th, 2015|Categories: Stigma Fighters|0 Comments

              Stigma Fighters: Bruce Ario

              Carrying the Message By Bruce Ario With the onset of my illness, I felt I had a lot to prove. What it boiled down to is that I had to prove my self-worth. My ego required some kind of reaction to my diagnosis of schizophrenia. At first my reactions were private and clandestine. I felt [...]

              By |2015-10-24T19:00:52-07:00October 27th, 2015|Categories: Schizophrenia, Stigma Fighters|0 Comments

                Stigma Fighters: Sarah Moore

                I am what my therapist and doctor call “high-functioning.” I have major depression and anxiety disorder, but like many with this illness, you would not be able to tell by looking at me. I am able to get groceries, read books I like, and participate in life, MOST of the time. One of the rotten [...]

                By |2015-10-26T16:42:55-07:00October 26th, 2015|Categories: Anxiety, Depression, Stigma Fighters|0 Comments

                  Stigma Fighters: Catherine Stone

                  OPEN LETTER TO SOCIETY Dear society, People who suffer from mental illness are not second-class citizens. They are not jokes, they are not puns, they are not attention-seekers. Their lives are not worth any less than your own and their illnesses are no different from those you call 'physical', as if though the brain was [...]

                  By |2015-10-24T18:38:15-07:00October 25th, 2015|Categories: Stigma Fighters, Uncategorized|2 Comments