Through interviews with and essays from individuals who battle mental illness, read on for authentic insight into having a mental illness. Want to help #BreaktheStigma against mental illness? Contact me to share your story!
This week, October 10-16, 2021, is known as International OCD Awareness Week, and I couldn’t find a better time to break the stigma of this highly debilitating disorder. Continue reading Break the Stigma: International OCD Awareness Week
“I remember wanting to go to sleep and never wake up. I felt as though my internal world and external world were two completely different places.” Continue reading Break the Stigma: The Many Faces of OCD
What if being in an amazing relationship, loving someone who shares those same feelings for you, only causes you pain? Continue reading Break the Stigma: Living (and Loving) with Relationship-OCD
I just wanted to disappear and not exist anymore. I felt like everyone’s life would be better without me in it. Continue reading Break the Stigma: Battling the Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression
I could feel myself beginning to slip; if this went on much longer, I was going to lose everything, quite literally. Continue reading Break the Stigma: Anxiety, Mood Swings, and Addiction
“The worst part was going back to school and everyone asking me if I was ‘the girl who had a seizure.'” Continue reading Break the Stigma: Q&A on Anxiety-Induced Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
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