Once upon a time in a land that doesn't exist, a girl crawled into a police station and says four words that only the bravest of the brave could ever say: “I was just raped.” The girl looks like she's been roughed up: eyes swollen and filled with tears, her clothes dirty and disorganized and [...]
I had a dream. My dream was to get married to the love of my life and have a family. I lived the good life in my 20′s. I worked in the music industry, hung out with rock stars and just had fun. When I reached 30, I knew it was time to say goodbye [...]
My name is Tina I have been living with depression all my life, or at least for as long as I can remember. My story goes back to childhood when I lived a life that no child should ever live. I was exposed to drugs and sex at a young age and I was determined [...]
I write because I don't know how to exist without writing. I was recently told I had to be careful about what I share online. This made me more anxious than I already am. Writing is a form of therapy to me. Sometimes, I'll get a nagging feeling in my chest. It rises to my [...]
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder By Jack A. I have always been meticulous by nature. Not in a Felix-Unger-neat-freak kind of way, but in a stickler-always-by-the-rules kind of way. I remember one incident, when I was in sixth grade; I was utterly exhausted. I was struggling to stay awake at the kitchen table so that I could [...]
Let’s talk about Being Brave. Not with a sword, but with our voices. Maybe we use a pen. Maybe we click, clack away on a keyboard, looking up only every now and then at the words born onto the white screen before us. Maybe we are Brave with our voices or a maybe it’s with [...]
I Had to Be Blind-sighted for my Eyes to Open I was blind-sighted by things I couldn’t see. The one I noticed first was physical and obvious and in my face. It was so much in my face that it forced my eyes open so that I could finally see the second thing. The first [...]
Amazingly, I have gone through life undiagnosed with any mental illness, but if one were to know me, they’d know that this doesn't necessarily mean much at all. As a young teen, I struggled with food issues that turned into anorexia and bulimia that lasted until my 20s. I was also a cutter and had [...]