On May 15th 2015, a federal jury condemned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in killing four people and injuring hundreds in the Boston…
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…
Rachel, a blogger on time-to-change.org, suffers from an unnamed mental illness. She wrote this poem in an effort to speak to the fear, discrimination, and…
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…
“Out of the Darkness” is one of the many written pieces featured in a book called FASCInATE – Friends of Alma St Centre Inspiring Action…
A friend of mine once told me that she was the product of her mother’s rape. Staring at her reflection in the mirror, she wondered…
“One Day at a Time” is a song by The Eagles. The band’s lead singer, Joe Walsh, wrote the lyrics to explain his struggle 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…
A victim of prolonged physical and sexual torture at the hands of her father, Brenda (name changed) was suicidal for thirty-five years. Her life was…
“The Black Pit” is one of the many written pieces featured in a book called FASCInATE – Friends of Alma St Centre Inspiring Action Towards…
“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…
“Hurt”, by Nine Inch Nails describes band member and lead vocalist Trent Reznor’s struggle with self-harm, heroin addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts. He uses writing…
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…
Gavin James performs ‘22’, a melancholic and reflective song about growing older. The video depicts a story of a victim of bullying wherein victim is…
The song ‘Too Much On My Mind’ was written by Ray Davies in 1966 and performed by The Kinks. The lyrics describe the very real…
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,…
In the 1960s, guitarist/songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel wrote a song about suicide. On their surface, the lyrics explain that severe loneliness and…
Nearly nine of every ten adults in the United States will gamble recreationally at some point in their lives. But for around two percent of…
In his series, ‘It’s Hardly Noticeable’, photographer John William Keedy depict his personal struggle with anxiety through photography. He didn’t just publish self-portraits, however. Instead,…
