Stories

I was always known to be “the happy one”. Always known for positivity, and looking on the bright side of, well, everything. If it was the mo...

I was diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder and a panic disorder when I was 11 years old. I struggled so hard to go to school. I made goo...

For as long as I can remember, I was an anxious person. There were times I wondered why I had that butterflies in my stomach feeling for no reaso...

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...

Oh my, where do I begin... Ever since I was a child, people left my life; friends left me, my parents divorced and my first boyfriend committed ...

  I’ve always waffled on telling my mental health journey, I think because I have never felt that it is worth telling. And isn’t that, in and o...

          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. ...

       I was going to say that my mental health journey started four years ago, but in reality, it's been going on for my whole life. I experie...

       “How old were you when you remember first having these feelings?” was a question that began to cause notable physical tension in my shou...

           I’ve always been shy. As a teen, I used to call myself “cripplingly shy.” My dream was to become “functionally shy.”   In 2018, I w...

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

     Mental illness first impacted my life when my therapist diagnosed me with ADD and OCD at four years old. 😯 This greatly affected my academic...