Becca was the 2014 winner of the Change The View Contest run by Children’s Mental Health Ontario. In her video, she discusses her personal story…
In a short video featured on Buzzfeed four brave individuals discuss their attempts at taking their own lives. The video–and accompanying article–offers insight on how they coped and developed personal…
Fall Out Boy’s, “7 Minutes in Heaven” is a song written by Pete Wentz, the band’s bassist, who attempted to commit suicide in 2005 by…
To anyone on the outside looking in, Kevin Breel was a joyful and funny guy. In his TedTalk entitled “Confessions of a Depressed Comic”, he…
In this TedTalk, Andrew Solomon speaks about the thoughts and experiences he had while facing depression, and how this motivated him to interview others with…
In his TedTalk entitled “The Bridge Between Suicide and Life” Kevin Briggs speaks about his experience patrolling the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, a…
“Jump They Say” written and performed by David Bowie is a song about Bowie’s brother, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and jumped from a building…
In her TedTalk entitled “What’s so Funny About Mental Illness?”, Ruby Wax, a comedian diagnosed with clinical depression, explains how she uses comedy to deal…
In “The Story of Ryan Anderson”, NBA star Ryan Anderson, talks candidly about losing his girlfriend to suicide in 2013. In the video, he discusses…
In “Explaining Depression to My Mother” Sabrina Benaim uses the power of spoken word to communicate with her mother, revealing her struggle with mental illness–specifically,…
