As the prevalence of mental health issues increases and affects an ever larger number of our friends and family, it becomes essential that we create spaces for folks to talk about how they overcame or persisted despite mental health challenges. Here, we’ve tried to create a safe space for people to come together and discuss their stories, experiences, triumphs and failures with managing their mental health issues.
Chad Lipka
Our culture is experiencing crises of several kinds and we can look at it at one level as a crisis of meaning. This Meaning Crisis has a profound impact on how we live our lives and I certainly have experienced the negative effects. I’ll try to keep this personal. Read More>>
Phillip Moore
I am still learning to adapt to this busy world, after having lived in the Middle East for a few years. After serving three combat tours in Iraq with the US Army, I was unaware of how much mental baggage would continue following me, after all these years. Read More>>
Dreg Vega
Mental health has always been a personal struggle for me. I always find myself getting carried off to a place where for years I’d wish for someone to stumble upon me and help get me out of there. As the years have gone by and I’ve grown and changed probably 100 times over I’ve realized that I never needed anyone to find me. Read More>>
Louise but I’m known as Lady Leonard
How Have You Overcome or Persisted Despite the Challenges Related to Mental Health Issues and Alcoholism? Part I: The Hell Inside My Head I want you to understand what hell feels like. It wasn’t a place of fire; it was the four walls of my skull. My mental health was a battlefield, and vodka was the only shield I had left. Read More>>
Tea Fannie
I have had multiple miscarriages. Coming to the realization that kids may not be something in my future has been so hard to accept. It affected my mental health for close to a decade, even while I was in an emotionally abusive marriage. Read More>>
