For years, the field of maternal healthcare has emphasized supportive birthing environments. Giving birth is a deeply vulnerable experience, and having a compassionate medical team…
This powerful video emphasizes the invisibility of mental illness. In fact, one in four people globally suffers from a mental-health or neurological problem in their…
For their sixth studio album, Unstoppable, Rascal Flatts wrote “Why”, a powerful, slow-tempo, country song about a friend’s suicide. The song’s narrator reflects on the…
This photograph shows a mural from the Berlin Wall, which was constructed by the Soviet Union in 1961 to separate East and West Germany. The…
“The Fantastic Duo” is a poem by Deceptive Cheese (pseudonym). The narrative depicts a battle between the depression and anxiety that plague the author. Throughout…
Attempting to go through a normal day using a schizophrenia simulator, CNN’s Anderson Cooper demonstrates the difficulties that individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia face every day,…
A teenager diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, Mary Christina wrote this poem to express the confusion, sadness, and shame she experiences as a result of…
“Armatage Shanks” is a song written by Billy Joe Armstrong of the band Green Day when he was devastated after a break up and said…
“Don’t tell your Uber driver that you’re going to an orgy”—so begins Donte Collins’ poem “Grief Puppet”. Collins describes the experience of seeing his dead…



