Stories

  I apologise in advance for how messy this post is, I've redone it so many times already and I just can't get it right. I always feel like I ha...

  My life drastically changed shortly after my 15th birthday. I was sexually assaulted.  I was diagnosed with Severe Depression and Sever...

       My story starts in grade 3. I was a happy child with no worries until grade 3. I was in softball and got hit with a ball in my head whic...

  When I was 16, things with my mental health started to get really bad. I was struggling with anxiety, depression and more, and it all hit me ...

I am a mother. I am a sister. I am a daughter. I am a fighter. I often ask myself:How can we convince every depressed person out there tha...

     It felt like there was something very wrong with me.  I suffered in silence, yet my husband and my newborn son heard my cries, my screa...

          I was nicknamed ‘the baby whisperer’ growing up. I always knew I wanted to be a mom. I have a huge extended family and lots of cousins. ...

  These pictures show my “then”, and my now. Then for me was a really bad place, a scary living nightmare and a place that I never thought I’d ...

Living With Suicidal Thoughts, By Cody Fast      Ok, that’s a pretty intense article title, trust me, I know that. But I mean “suicidal thoughts” ...

     I became a mental health advocate when I became an online health coach. Around the time I was attending college, I became very depressed and ...

          This was it - my last appointment with the Psychiatrist. Conversations up until this point were mainly regarding medication increases. H...

     I’ve dealt with mental illness my entire life. It came about through a toxic household when I was a child. I grew up within isolation and ju...