The song “Everything is Alright” by Motion City Soundtrack documents frontman Justin Pierre’s experience with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Pierre recounts cleaning his…
Shawn Achor, a Harvard scholar and positive psychologist, speaks at TEDx regarding the benefits of prioritizing happiness. In attempting to dispel the illusion that people must…
Performing for Toronto during the semi-finals at the 2014 National Poetry Slam, Sabrina Benaim shares her raw experience with depression, disclosing what she has endured…
Journalist Sebastien Junger shares his thoughts on the toll that a broken society takes on soldiers returning home from war. In this passionate TED Talk,…
The song “Cut” by recording artist Plumb highlights a struggle with self-harm, and the accompanying feelings of numbness and loneliness. As a teenager, Plumb experienced…
“My aunt woke me to say that my mom sent a text to the family priest in the middle of the night, asking for prayers…
Anna R. was having an ultrasound, prepared to see her baby for the first time. When she asked the technician what the sex of the…
In January 1999, Pierre Daviault, a 24-year veteran constable of the Aylmer Police Services in Quebec, was arrested on 10 criminal charges for allegedly assaulting…
Barb Brown depicts the subjective experience of anxiety in her poem titled ‘Anxiety Comes’, lyrically describing the suddenness and fear. Anxiety Comes it comes like…
English, Math, History, Geography…classes found in school curricula build foundational knowledge and promote future success. Schools lay the groundwork for cognitive development, especially in academic…
Through a creative short video featured on Buzzfeed, one woman used her prescribed medication as a way to illustrate her struggle with mental illness. “I cannot…
‘Explaining My Depression to My Mom’ is a poem by Sabrina Benaim presented at Button Poetry, an organization dedicated to the production and distribution of…
In this video, Thomas Insel, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, explains the benefits of early detection of mental illnesses. Feature Image:…
From the darkness of despair, Gemma Correll and Allie Brosh have created deeply personal cartoons to illustrate their experiences with mental illness. Maintaining popular online…
‘Spilled Ink’, a poem by Shiane Salabie, explains her personal struggle of dealing with everyday challenges. In the powerful lines, Salabie speaks to the idea…
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…
‘Happy Little Pill’, performed by Troye Sivan, is a song about loneliness, antidepressants, and different ways that people cope. As Sivan explains, it was written during a…
In September 2015, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada, ruled that a mother, known only as ‘B.R.’, could no longer leave her eight-year old…
‘Listen’ is a poem by Kaitlin Akow, presented at the Vancouver Poetry Slam. The poem discusses the issue of anxiety and the struggle to be…
Three years ago, Ameera Mohammed felt something strange. As if a rock were pressing against her chest, she struggled to breathe. Sweat trickled down her…
