I Hate the Color Red “So, when exactly should one begin to feel comfortable at a new job, I always feel nervous?” I asked my boyfriend, now husband, at the age of 18. Hmmm, you should already feel fine, it’s been 6 month,” he said. This was the first time I knew something was wrong [...]
Eleven days before I turned 20, I was diagnosed with depression and bipolar II disorder. About four months later, I was also diagnosed with anxiety and mild panic. Those aren't exactly easy diagnoses to handle. It's not like being told you've got strep and this medication will make it better. Finding the right medication is [...]
Before I went public about the fact that I live with Bipolar Disorder type 1 last year, not many people in my life knew that I had been diagnosed with a mental illness at the age of 27. It wasn’t something that came up in casual conversation. But ever since opening up about how this [...]
Well, where on Earth do I even begin? If I was to look back on my life, it seems like one of those worst-case scenarios you'd hear about in a psychology class. While I might be 27 years old, it feels like I've already lived an entire life. Life has been chaos from day 1 [...]
Anniversaries. There's good ones and then there are bad ones. Everyone loves happy anniversaries, they look forward to it every year, but what about the bad ones? The ones when you lost someone you love or when a relationship ended, you lost all of your belongings in a fire, etc. Those bad anniversaries no one [...]
It's Mother's Day and every time this year, naturally, I think about the amazing woman who gave birth to me: Liz Fader. Liz Fader is a lot of things. She is a retired public relations executive, a writer, a hustler (in the Jewish mother sense of the word - I never had to worry about [...]
One day, Dr. Leah Klungness, her husband, and her two children Andrew, eight at the time, and Sarah, three years of age, were preparing to move from their home in Syracuse, New York. The van was packed and they were set to go. All of a sudden, Leah received an unexpected phone call from her [...]
“This too shall pass.” - Anonymous When most people think of anxiety, they think of being nervous on a first date, or seeing someone for the first time in five years. Not me. When I think anxiety, I think waking up every single day for the past fifteen years absolutely terrified for no apparent reason. [...]