Mental 7 Surprising Gifts of My Mental Illness I used to live in an I-have-it-together illusion. But waking up in ICU after a failed suicide attempt left me with no choice Guest Author Posted on February 1, 2016
Essays Waiting For the Other Shoe to Drop My earliest memory is of my brother returning from his first day of kindergarten, or maybe first grade, missing a shoe. He Laurel Hermanson Posted on November 19, 2015
Wellness How I use YouTube To Help People Who Suffer From PTSD I’m a mental health YouTuber. This means that I make videos with the purpose of clearing up mental health misconceptions, Sweatpants & Coffee Posted on November 11, 2015
Essays Why I’m Not Ashamed To Take Anti-Depressants I have been taking anti-depressants for a long, long time. Sometimes it feels like forever, like I will never know what my Barbara Doyle Posted on November 9, 2015
Mental Forming a Gratitude Routine My secret to living well is my morning routine: I lie in bed a little longer than I should. Sometimes, I struggle with how Katie Lovebomb Posted on November 6, 2015
Books, Mental Sweatpants & Sanity | Interview: Julie Barton, Author of “Dog Medicine” Julie Barton’s new memoir Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself, chronicles her descent into deep depression in Jordan Rosenfeld Posted on October 22, 2015
Wellness It’s Not You, It’s Me: Kind Words That Get Under My Skin There are some kind words I just can’t hear. It’s as if they’re being broadcast on an inaudible frequency that affects me the Nanea Hoffman Posted on October 20, 2015
Mental Anxiety Is Not a Choice When I was 5 years old, I was terrified of admitting that I couldn’t finish the gelatinous beef stew we summer program kids Nanea Hoffman Posted on September 7, 2015
Books Review & Interview | Broken Places by Rachel Thompson One of the scariest things a victim of sexual abuse can do is tell his or her story. It’s also the most powerful. In Broken Nanea Hoffman Posted on August 31, 2015
Mental, Self Care, Wellness 5 Helpful Tips for the Walking Depressed The first time I was clinically depressed, I just thought I was tired, lazy, and severely lacking in motivation. I was 20 Nanea Hoffman Posted on August 14, 2015